XM Radio accepts FCC’s proposed rules for terrestrial repeaters (...
XM Radio accepts FCC’s proposed rules for terrestrial repeaters (CD Dec 18 p5) “with few exceptions,” it said in comments on rulemaking, but said its “acceptance of the FCC’s proposed compromise represents a significant concession on its part.” It…
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said wireless communications licensees had known about repeaters since 1990 but didn’t raise objection until “the last minute,” and most wireless licensees were “warehousing their spectrum.” Wireless licensees also could solve most problems by improving receivers, XM said, and during months of experiments and operation “XM Radio has yet to receive an interference complaint from a single WCS licensee.” XM did ask FCC to use same power measuring technique for repeaters as for MDS and ITFS transmitters and to eliminate proposed 18 month freeze on deployment of additional repeaters. WCS Coalition, meanwhile, said “the fundamental premise underlying the Bureau’s proposal is flawed” because it would limit protection for wireless operators: “The proposal runs dangerously close to reducing WCS to secondary status in its own band.” It said “very limited compensation” alone for interference wouldn’t solve problem: “Although some of the Bureau’s proposals may have facial appeal, in truth they are ineffectual, arbitrary and capricious.”