Five more companies have applied with the FCC to operate NGSO constellations in V-band after Boeing first requested to last year. OneWeb's V-band constellation idea, called OW-V, is pictured above.

“Viasat’s wholly owned subsidiary, Inmarsat Inc., is today withdrawing its application for authority to access the US market with a planned NGSO system using portions of the V-band,” the company said.

The V band is suitable for short-range transmission, both for access as well as for backhaul that connects the tower antennas to the switching centres of mobile networks. The radio spectrum in the ...

PARIS – Boeing wants U.S. and international regulators to relax constraints on low-orbiting satellite broadband constellations using C- and V-band and has specifically asked for a license to launch ...