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The BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) has been providing continuous positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT) services in the global region since the end of 2018. The BDS constellation includes geostationary earth orbit (GEO), inclined geostationary orbit (IGSO), and medium earth orbit (MEO) satellites. However, its hybrid constellation structure and the satellite-side multipath effect have hindered the BDS PPP AR for two main reasons: (1) some receivers have half-cycle biases between GEO and non-GEO satellites, which result in the inconsistency of hardware delays for each satellite type; (2) the correction model for elevation-dependent satellite-side multipath effect is only applicable to IGSO and MEO, while in the case of GEO the effect cannot be effectively weakened or eliminated. To rectify these problems, a suitable strategy is proposed for estimating BDS FCBs, whereby the GEO FCBs and non-GEO FCBs are estimated independently. Results show that the FCBs estimated by the new strategy for GEO and non-GEO are more stable compared to the traditional strategy. The GEO wide-lane (WL) FCBs fluctuate less than 0.3 cycle in one month, except for C05, while the variation of non-GEO WL FCBs is about 0.1 cycle. In addition, compared to the traditional strategy, the fractions of GEO WL ambiguities after the removal of FCBs estimated by the new strategy can be improved noticeably from 53.5% to 78.5%, and from 71.8% to 92.3% for &lt;0.15 cycle and &lt;0.25 cycle respectively, which could be comparable with non-GEO. Simultaneously, the improvement of GEO narrow-lane (NL) ambiguities is from 28.9% to 40.2%, and from 40.4% to 53.3% for &lt;0.10 cycle and &lt;0.15 cycle respectively, are less noticeable. This is mainly due to the low precision IGS products for GEO. 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