[ldm-users] FCC and the wireless industry pushing hard to remove frequencies from satellite broadcasting

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• Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2025 00:26:59 +0000
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Good evening everyone,

I had been meaning to post this article, and I apologize for not doing so 
sooner. I wanted to bring up something that we'll have to keep an eye on. As 
many of you know, NOAAport is scheduled to go bye-bye in a few years as AWIPS 
pulls it's data from online sources in the not-too-distant future, instead of 
NOAAport.

But it could happen even sooner than that. The cellular/wireless industry is 
pushing the FCC hard to get rid of the 3.8-4.4 ghZ band that television 
networks, NOAAport and others use...to repurpose for 5G and 6G cellular use.

For it's part, the television industry is rejecting it, saying that they don't 
have anywhere else to go; fiber is not as reliable for delivering video and 
audio on a 24/7/365 environment where the broadcast simply must get through. I 
agree with that point.

But the FCC wants them, and NOAAport, and everything else in those frequencies 
to switch to fiber, possibly as early as next year.

The question is, what will replace NOAAport? That remains a mystery.

https://www.tvtechnology.com/news/airwaves-battle-brews-over-upper-c-band-at-fcc

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