Despite FCC, European regulators seem willing to let 25-year-old GEO/Non-GEO interference limits remain for now

by Peter B. de Selding

BRUSSELS — European officials all but quashed any hope that global telecom regulators would decide next year on whether to loosen power limits on non-GEO constellations that were put into place 25 years ago to protect GEO-orbit satellites from interference.

International Telecommunication Union (ITU) governments agreed at their WRC-23 conference to conduct studies on whether technology advances now permit interference-free operations on GEO satellites even if the LEO constellations were operating at much higher power levels.

The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC)

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