Satcom guidelines: DoT looks to finalise key technical conditions

TRAI leaves spectrum sharing and coordination distance norms to DoT as satellite operators await clarity before launching services using C, Ku and Ka bands

From prescribing coordination distance between two satellite earth station gateways operating on the same frequencies, to creating a framework for sharing of spectrum, a series of key technical conditions for satellite communication has been left by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) to the Department of Telecommunication (DoT).

 

Most important among this is TRAI’s recommendation that the DoT’s Telecom Engineering Centre (TEC) should examine the need for prescribing the framework for the sharing of spectrum.

 

The government would have to clarify the rules for spectrum sharing for operators to begin the service. TRAI has allowed space spectrum across the