The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will not hold priority access license auctions for Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) mid-band spectrum until at least next year “at the earliest,” FCC Commissioner Michael O’Rielly said yesterday while speaking at the University of Maryland. However, the FCC plans to make 3.5 gigahertz (GHz) spectrum available to unlicensed third tier,…

The C-Band Alliance (CBA) appointed Peter Pitsch as head of advocacy and government affairs. The CBA is the entity that proposes to implement a safe and efficient clearing and repurposing of mid-band ‘C-band’ downlink spectrum to accelerate the deployment of 5G services in the U.S. The CBA was formed by Intelsat, SES, Eutelsat, and Telesat,…

Eutelsat Communications appointed Julie Burguburu as Company Secretary of the Group and a member of the Executive Committee, effective tomorrow. Burguburu will oversee Eutelsat's legal, compliance, regulatory and governance issues by heading the company's teams in charge of these functions, and will be an important asset as the World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC) will take place in 2019.…

HawkEye 360 commissioned its three Pathfinder satellites and began geolocating Radio Frequency (RF) signals. According to the release early test results have demonstrated successful geolocation of Very High Frequency (VHF) Channels 16 and 70, EPIRB, and AIS signals as well as identifying marine radar signals. This proprietary source of data helps enable HawkEye 360 to locate and…