Iridium again said FCC’s mobile hearing aid compatibility...
Iridium again said FCC’s mobile hearing aid compatibility rules aren’t needed or appropriate for the mobile satellite services industry. The company’s system has unique characteristics that include a limited amount of unpaired L-band spectrum in which it conducts both uplink…
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and downlink operations, a truly global communications system covering the entire earth and “handset distribution through third party vendors and no direct to consumer sales,” it said, reporting in docket 07-250 on a meeting of company lawyers with acting Chief Roger Sherman and others in the Wireless Bureau (http://bit.ly/1edRhSH). There’s nothing in the record of the current proceeding to support a determination by the FCC that application of HAC obligations to non-ancillary terrestrial component MSS would be technologically feasible, it said. The costs and complexities inherent in developing new HAC-compliant non-ATC MSS devices “could cause difficulties in successfully marketing the devices,” it said.