Please explain in the area below why an STA is necessary:
Panasonic Avionics Corporation (Panasonic) requests Special Temporary Authority (STA) for a 180-day period, commencing on or about October 15, 2012, to conduct ground testing in support of Panasonic?s Global Communications Suite (GCS) featuring the ?eXConnect? Ku-band aeronautical mobile-satellite service (AMSS) system to provide broadband connectivity onboard aircraft in flight. It is requested that the experimental license be granted to conduct the testing onboard parked aircraft at the George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston, Texas.
Previously, on November 2, 2010, the FCC granted a two-year experimental license (Call Sign WF2XLF), effective until November 1, 2012, to conduct two types of testing: (1) electromagnetic interference (EMI) ground testing of multiple, simulated transmit portable electronic devices (T-PEDs); RF transmissions in the aircraft cabin in multiple frequency bands: GSM, cellular, Wi-Fi and others; and (2) picocell system operations in the aircraft cabin for enabling GSM phone communications for passengers and crew. Call Sign WF2XLF authorizes testing onboard parked aircraft at four sites: (1) Southern California Logistics Airport, Victorville, CA; (2) Paine Field Airport, Everett, WA; (3) Piedmont-Triad International Airport, Greensboro, NC; and (4) TSTC Waco Airport, Waco, TX.
Subsequent to the grant of Call Sign WF2XLF, Panasonic has sought and obtained a series of separate, but related experimental STAs or two-year experimental licenses to conduct testing at additional airfields. The instant application is another in this series, seeking to add the George Bush Interncontinental Airport as an additional testing site.
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