On 18 June 2024, Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED) launched a consultation on policies, licensing and technology frameworks for the use of certain frequency bands allocated to mobile services to support expanded coverage through satellites, hereinafter referred to as Satellite Supplemental Mobile Coverage (SMCS).

The consultation proposes to apply the SMCS framework to the following frequency bands:

• 600 MHz（617-652 MHz/663-698 MHz）
• 700 MHz (698-756 MHz and 777-787 MHz).
• 800 MHz cellular (824-849 MHz/869-894 MHz).
• PCS（1850-1915 MHz/1930-1995 MHz）
• AWS-1（1710-1755 MHz/2110-2155 MHz）
• AWS-3（1755-1780 MHz/2155-2180 MHz）

Click this link to view the original public consultation, and the comment period ends on13 September 2024.