MDS America failed to ’substantiate its representations’ to FCC t...
MDS America failed to “substantiate its representations” to FCC that it has technology capable of sharing spectrum with DBS operators, Northpoint said in letter Thurs. to FCC. MDS America “now admits that much of the information it provided to…
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FCC was false.” Failure to properly substantiate claims calls into question MDS’ “fitness to be licensee,” Northpoint charged. Northpoint said it examined 8 representative systems owned by MDS and documented that not one provided example of actual co- frequency sharing. Instead, MDS provided examples of band segmentation, whereby they transmit terrestrial signals on frequency close to frequency used by satellites. “Just as a golf shot that lands quite close to the hole is not the same as one that lands in the hole, an MDS operation that comes quite close to satellite frequencies is not the same as one that truly shares the same frequency,” Northpoint stated.