FCC Seen Facing Further Calls to Revisit Space Spectrum Rules

ICLE September 19, 2025

ICLE was mentioned in this Communications Daily article, covering  the ICLE/New America satellite webinar, where Patricia Cooper, former VP for satellite government affairs at SpaceX said that FCC faces growing pressure to revisit NGSO spectrum-sharing rules amid ongoing NGSO-GSO proceedings. Read the full article here.

As non-geostationary orbit (NGSO) satellite systems become more established, the FCC will face more pressure to revisit the rules, frameworks and spectrum-sharing approaches they operate under, space regulatory consultant Patricia Cooper said Thursday at a New America/International Center for Law & Economics webinar.
She and SpaceX and Amazon Kuiper representatives talked up the FCC’s pending proceeding that contemplates changing the satellite spectrum-sharing regime between NGSO and geostationary orbit (GSO) fixed satellite service in certain bands.