Also in Europe a frequency band has been assigned to MSS to support pan-European services.
Additional applications like digital television broadcast, transport monitoring andmanagement, safety and emergency communications, automatic tolling and dangerous goods tracking are targeted.
The satellite segment will ensure these services across the entire European territory without issues of coverage.
The European S-band MSS spectrum comprises two bands of 30 MHz: 1980-2010 MHz for the transmit (Tx), i.e. the uplink from the user terminals, and 2170-2200 MHz for the receive (Rx) band.
To facilitate the application of this band in mobile devices the frequencies have been placed adjacent to the UMTS spectrum (see Figure 1). Two exploitation licenses
of 15+15 MHz each have been awarded respectively to Solaris Mobile and Inmarsat.