“We’re heading for a confrontation here,” Brett Tarnutzer, the GSMA’s head of spectrum, said in an interview, urging flexibility on the part of the commercial space industry, U.S. space agency NASA and its European counterpart ESA. Sky , which represents 750 operators and another 350 firms in the mobile industry , has called for access to the high - capacity spectrum that the space lobby currently has a monopoly over . The global satellite industry wants access to the high - band spectrum to support the ##G services ; with frequencies over 26 MHz , the high - band spectrum has the greatest capacity to transfer data . Satellite operators want to maintain a wide margin of unused bandwidth to ensure there is no interference with services like weather forecasting which , if disrupted , could potentially put lives at risk .
Sky , which represents 750 operators and another 350 firms in the mobile industry , has called for access to the high - capacity spectrum that the space lobby currently has a monopoly over . The global satellite industry wants access to the high - band spectrum to support the ##G services ; with frequencies over 26 MHz , the high - band spectrum has the greatest capacity to transfer data . Satellite operators want to maintain a wide margin of unused bandwidth to ensure there is no interference with services like weather forecasting which , if disrupted , could potentially put lives at risk .