SpaceX urged European operators to stop attacking it. The latter threatens to go to court if the FCC relaxes the rules related to the Starlink network.
This Monday, seven operators, including Orange, Telefonica and Vodafone, sent an open letter to the FCC, the Federal Communications Commission, urging them not to relax rules around Space X.
Changes that may interfere with mobile networks
In this letter, the operators ask the US authority not to reconsider measures to protect “authorized landline mobile network operators and their users from interference.”
This measure, if implemented, could interfere with telecom networks and the seven European operators have decided to join AT&T and Verizon in their fight against these changes. However, operators from the Old Continent are raising the specter of a legal battle.
The companies believe that if there was interference following changes in broadcasting rules, this would constitute a legal basis for seeking damages because the utility of the spectrum and licenses to use it would be in question.
For Starlink, this exemption would allow for better radio broadcasting, particularly with the aim of providing mobile services to T-Mobile, a competitor of AT&T and Verizon but also a subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom.
An attempt by AST to prevent competition
Elon Musk's company suggested that the sent message was merely an attempt by AST Space Mobile, a competitor funded by AT&T and Verizon with Orange and Telefonica as partners, to recruit critics abroad to lead a disinformation campaign to damage competition on the Old Continent.
SpaceX calls on the Commission not to give in to pressure from operators and not to put itself in the shoes of local administrations such as Arcep in France, as reported. Communications.
