Compensation method proposed by satellite digital audio radio ser...
Compensation method proposed by satellite digital audio radio service (SDARS) licensees won’t resolve interference issues involving terrestrial repeaters, Verizon Wireless told FCC in ex parte filing last week. Carrier cited concerns raised by other Wireless Communications Services (WCS) licensees…
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over potential interference that terrestrial repeaters above 2 kw would have on WCS operations, among them that proposal by SDARS licensee: (1) Didn’t cover customer- premises equipment. (2) Excluded costs other than costs of filters. (3) Limited compensation to “extremely short period of time,” which carrier said typically would expire before WCS was widely deployed. (4) Capped total compensation at $1 million for all WCS licensees, which Verizon called “a small fraction of the costs imposed on WCS licensees by the interference.” Verizon Wireless also told Commission that interference problems posed by SDARS terrestrial repeaters couldn’t be fixed with “simple and inexpensive technical solution.” It said only feasible way to prevent such interference was to cap power of terrestrial repeaters.