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SIA: Licenses Show Satellite Industry's UMFUS Demand
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Fusion42 · 12 July 2026 · Fusion42 review
The Satellite Industry Association filed with the FCC showing 500+ cancelled terrestrial UMFUS licences over five years against a 400% surge in satellite earth station applications, signalling a market shift from terrestrial to satellite use of shared spectrum. SIA is pushing the FCC to grant co-primary FSS allocation in the 28 GHz band and remove licensing barriers like per-county caps and population coverage restrictions.
This Wire brief sits within Fusion42's coverage of Space Tech.
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You're building satellite earth station gear or operating a satellite network in the US. The FCC is about to hear hard data that terrestrial players are abandoning this spectrum and satellite demand has quadrupled — which means regulatory permission to site gateways in suburbs and cities, not just remote areas, is moving from unlikely to inevitable.
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