Brian wrote:
the FCC has always been the 500-pound gorilla cracking down on everybody from drunken ham operators to national networks and 2-second "wardrobe malfunctions." Why don't the FCC and the Navy just get together and say, "screw you, LightSquared
As I have said here several times, the FCC itself has adopted as its highest priority finding 500 MHz of additional spectrum for mobile broadband services. The FCC believes that this is absolutely essential to the economic survival of the country. I happen to disagree -- I think that 99.96% of the beneficiaries will be people playing multi-player games, watching re-runs of jersey shore, and downloading porn, and you can't run an economy on those -- but that IS what the FCC thinks, and that is clearly what is driving it to make many of the decisions it has made in the last 5 years or so.
http://download.broadband.gov/plan/national-broadband-plan.pdf (NOTE: 12 MB download)
Interestingly, based on the data the FCC relies on to reach its conclusion, even 500 MHz of additional mobile broadband spectrum will not be nearly enough to solve the problem it perceives.
If it becomes inescapable based on testing (more of which is almost certain to be conducted) that widespread terrestrial operations in the adjacent MSS band would seriously impact GPS operations and that there is no reasonable possibility of mitigation, I believe the FCC will ultimately tell LS it cannot use the band in this manner. But note that under FCC precedent "serious impact" and "reasonable mitigation" do not mean, and have never meant, that absolutely no existing receivers will be affected.
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