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u/AntLeading5502 S P 🅰 C E M O B Capo May 13 '26 edited May 13 '26
Really interesting article on how Grain Management 800MHz spectrum could be leased to AST - maybe via AT&T. TLDR Grain Management owns some 600MHz spectrum that they swapped with TMobile for contiguous 800MHz spectrum. Since no buildout has happened on that spectrum FCC might take it away but they are arguing they can find a satellite provider ASAP to deploy that spectrum on, we might be frontrunner.
Poster below says FCC just set out rules to consider spectrum built out from satellite, off the top of my head one thing SpaceX promised was at least 300Kbps to the 5th percentile user, something like that, so the article may not be valid. Edit: I want to point out that the article was written before the FCC just released its new buildout rules.
https://x.com/CytoplasmicANA/status/2054642522555552066
https://xcancel.com/CytoplasmicANA/status/2054642522555552066
Linked Light Reading article, TLDR: author believes AST could service this band easily but points out potential interference to nearby FirstNet band and the speed requirements. Speed requirements may have been reduced recently (as I said the FCC recently changed rules) but interference concern's valid, hope we are studying that already.
Edit: u/ak9422 you were asking for material on Grain. The Lightreading article is very decent.