XM and Sirius’ objections to a Freedom of Information Act request...
XM and Sirius’ objections to a Freedom of Information Act request by U.S. Electronics “cannot and do not outweigh the reality that by asking the commission for permission to merge, they have squarely put these compliance issues in contention,”…
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wrote Charles Hein, the vendor’s counsel. In a series of FOIA requests, the U.S. Electronics demanded that the FCC release documents that the company says may show what happened to interoperable radio and unlawful emissions issues raised but not addressed. XM and Sirius filed a formal objection to the request. Meanwhile, the Motley Fool online investor column called suggestions that the FCC condition the merger on the combined entity giving up half of its spectrum “flat-out ridiculous.” Without interoperable radios, such a condition “would render older XM and Sirius receivers obsolete, or halve the number available channels across both systems,” wrote Rick Munarriz. “That certainly would go against the stipulation in the deal that the product would become more consumer friendly.”