Wednesday 22 June 2022 08:35 PM SpaceX's Starlink will experience outages '74% of the time' in US if 5G is ... trends now
Elon Musk's SpaceX has hit back at Dish Network for its proposal to operate a high-powered 5G mobile service in the 12 Ghz band, saying it will make Starlink internet 'unsuable for Americans.'
SpaceX filed a complaint with the Federal Communication Commission (FCC) on Tuesday, criticizing Dish for wanting to use part of the same Ku-band spectrum its Starlink and other satellite operators use to connect to terminals.
Adding more weight to its claim, SpaceX conducted testing in Last Vegas showing that Dish's proposals would result in US users experiencing 'harmful interference' 77 percent of the time, 'resulting in full outages 74 percent of the time.'
David Goldman, SpaceX senior director of satellite policy, wrote in the FCC complaint, 'this analysis [SpaceX's testing in Las Vegas] verifies what should be intuitive — that a high-power terrestrial network would blow out anyone using the high-sensitivity equipment satellite consumers must use to receive signals that comply with Commission and international power restrictions on satellite downlink transmissions.'
'As a result, vastly fewer Americans could be connected using next-generation satellite services, and those that remain would experience degraded service and regular network outages.'
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SpaceX conducted testing in Last Vegas showing that Dish's proposals would result in US users experiencing 'harmful interference' 77 percent of the time, 'resulting in full outages 74 percent of the time'
DailyMail.com has contacted SpaceX and Dish Network for comment and has yet to receive a response.
Dish EVP of External & Legislative Affairs Jeff Blum told Fierce Wireless last year: 'We want co-existence.
'We believe co-existence is possible. We want to protect our own satellite service.'
Dish also said that the company's 'expert engineers' are currently evaluating SpaceX's claims.
SpaceX filed a complaint with the Federal Communication Commission (FCC) on Tuesday, criticizing Dish for wanting to use part of the same Ku-band spectrum its Starlink and other satellite operators use to connect to terminals
SpaceX has launched some 2,700 Starlink satellite into low Earth orbit and has more than 400,000 subscribers worldwide.
However, the firm hopes to have as many as 42,000 satellites in its megaconstellation.
The space internet currently costs $110 a month with a $599 one-time equipment fee.
The firm's most recent Starlink launch was just last Friday, which saw 53 new internet
