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Qualcomm told the FCC that it’s more equitable and efficient...

Qualcomm told the FCC that it’s more equitable and efficient to create two 250 MHz blocks for a proposed air-to-ground (ATG) broadband system, rather than creating four 125 MHz blocks. Doing so would allow each licensee in affected areas to…

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have sufficient bandwidth despite the impairments, it said in a letter posted Friday in docket 13-114 (http://bit.ly/1seUSaN). A 250 MHz-wide spectrum block is needed to support bandwidth-intensive applications to all aircraft passengers flying above the continental U.S., such as full-motion video, it said. A single 125 MHz-wide license wouldn’t be able “to provide full broadband connectivity to each passenger, and thus offer the kind of user experience that we're all used to having on the ground,” it said. Qualcomm opposed Gogo’s claim that Qualcomm’s proposed regulations aren’t technology neutral. Qualcomm said it has always urged the commission to adopt technology neutral rules.