FCC Shouldn't Tweak Rules in Response to Aviation Industry Demands: Consultant Padden
The FCC should reject a push by the aviation industry asking the agency to consider tweaks to its rules to protect radio altimeters from C-band interference (see 2210060022), consultant Preston Padden said in comments posted Tuesday in docket 22-137. “The…
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proposal by the aviation community to codify the voluntary and temporary restrictions on C-Band usage graciously indulged by AT&T and Verizon is the most outrageous proposition I have seen in 50 years of following FCC matters (and I have seen some doozies -- maybe even filed one or two myself)!” Padden said: “The FCC must just say ‘no.’” Padden formerly worked for the C-Band Alliance but noted he has no financial interests in the proceeding. “AT&T/Verizon bought those spectrum usage rights from the U.S. Government for $82 Billion with absolutely no prior notice of possible restrictions related to altimeter spectrum located hundreds of MHz away,” he said.