FCC Adopts New Satellite Spectrum Sharing Rules
The agency also adopted two items aimed at targeting China.
WASHINGTON, April 30, 2026 – Federal regulators approved Thursday an order that its chairman said could improve capacity for low-Earth orbit satellite broadband by seven times.
“One way to think about it is where you might have had one connection to a satellite before, you could have connections to seven or more satellites at a time,” Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr said at the agency’s meeting Thursday.
The order will allow LEO operators to use higher power in the 10.7-12.7 GigaHertz (GHz), 17.3-18.6 GHz, and 19.7-20.2 GHz, something Elon Musk’s SpaceX has told the agency would dramatically improve the quality of its satellite broadband service.
