In an effort to increase broadband access on aircraft, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is proposing to use Ku-band, on a secondary basis, for terrestrial-based air-to-ground mobile services. According to IMS Research, by 2021 more than 15,000 global aircraft will have Wi-Fi – a five-fold increase from today’s numbers. Consumers’ unquenchable thirst for ubiquitous…

The U.S. federal government stands to benefit from proposed rules that would give it co-primary status in satellite spectrum shared with commercial users. Should recent rules proposed by the FCC be adopted, the federal government would get interference protection on 13,275 MHz of spectrum, which it currently operates on a secondary, unprotected, basis. The proposed…

If Facebook asks “What’s on your mind?” and Twitter asks “What’s happening?” who will ask “Where are you?” Well, it turns out that there may be no need to ask that question if an app on your smartphone is already reporting your location to others.   Geolocation Geolocation is the practice of determining the location…

With the newly elected Mexican government in 2013 came a series of reforms in sectors such as education, energy, labor and telecommunications. The telecom reform proposed by the new President Enrique Peña Nieto features important opportunities for foreign investors and satellite communications service providers. The proposed telecom reform includes the creation of the Federal Telecommunications…