Executives from AT&T and Sirius XM urged the FCC to...
Executives from AT&T and Sirius XM urged the FCC to adopt their proposed changes on shared use of the 2.3 GHz band for the wireless communications service (WCS) and the satellite digital audio radio service (SDARS). The companies filed the…
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proposal this year (CD June 19 p1). They reiterated that WCS and SDARS “have been burdened with technical limitations and regulatory uncertainty,” they said in an ex parte filing about a meeting with Louis Peraertz, aide to Commissioner Mignon Clyburn (http://xrl.us/bnmoz4). Adopting the parties’ proposed changes “will permit deployment of innovative mobile broadband services in the WCS band and will help to achieve the commission’s goal of making additional spectrum available for mobile broadband service,” they said. Doing so also will ensure that SDARS customers continue receiving desired programming “while removing the uncertainty Sirius XM has faced concerning the future technical rules under which it must operate,” they added.