Jim wrote:
That's why the FCC granted a "conditional" waiver of the rules. It was politically expedient, and I would imagine that the engineers at the FCC thought "there's no way they'll be able to demonstrate no interference"
The conditional waiver of the rules was not so that the spectrum could be used for terrestrial service -- that was already the rule ("ancillary terrestrial component"). The conditional waiver was so LS could sell terrestrial-only service (it was a conditional waiver of the "integrated service" rule that would otherwise have required the terrestrial service to be available only to customers of the satellite service). The Commission not only thought LS would demonstrate non-interference, it put its thumb on the scale until the public outcry became too loud to ignore (the GPS interests took forever to wake up -- that didn't happen until all of the comment periods were long closed). It just didn't matter what the staff engineers thought -- which is business as usual at the FCC.
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