San Diego Gas & Electric Co. opposed proposals by AT&T...

p1). Radically changing WCS technical rules based on a coordination agreement between two of the many WCS licensees “would be arbitrary and capricious agency action,” SDG&E said in an ex parte filing in docket 07-293 (http://xrl.us/bniapw). The submission between the two companies “raises novel technical and legal issues that would require the commission to initiate a new rulemaking proceeding in which all interested parties could properly consider the issues in the context of a fully developed record,” it said. SDG&E opposed the condition stating that “installation of fixed CPE [customer premises equipment] be prohibited within 20 meters from a roadway unless the WCS licensee can demonstrate compliance with the new ground power level thresholds proposed by AT&T and Sirius XM.” To the extent that CPE can be understood to include fixed end points in a smart grid system, SDG&E objects to this rule, it said. “A theoretical concern about the potential for harmful interference by a single 2.3 GHz licensee hardly provides a reasonable basis for commission action to adopt new rules for the entire WCS industry.” The company opposed suggested coordination requirements, requirements to prohibit mobile and portable transmitters in the WCS C and D blocks, and the proposed definition of harmful interference to satellite digital radio service operation. The utility said it objects to the proposed definition “because it would have a catastrophic effect on the SDG&E smart grid build-out."