[BC] My lobbyist is better than yours

[Bernie Courtney]

a large part of that could be that Nextel is handing over their entire iDen
network to the military/homeland security in the next 10 years as part of
that deal.


On 1/21/06, DANA PUOPOLO <dpuopolo at usa.net> wrote:
>
> Even worse..
>
>
>
> I also find it amazing that the cellular industry was recently able to get
> the
> military to free up HUGE chunks of the very spectrum they whined about
> giving
> broadcast. Could it be that their lobbiests are better then the NAB?
>
> -D
>
>
>
>
> ------ Original Message ------
> Received: Sat, 21 Jan 2006 03:53:47 PM PST
> From: Robert Meuser <Robertm at broadcast.net>
> To: "Broadcasters' Mailing List" <broadcast at radiolists.net>
> Subject: Re: [BC] Open discussion.....
>
> Williams, Chris (Albuquerque) wrote:
>
> >
> > Remember the FCC said develop IN BAND technology not Ibiquity. I am
> > surprised that that isn't debated more then how bad IBOC by Ibiquity is.
>
> The FCC said nothing. The industry could have had a separate band but
> did not want it. This is now XM and Sirius (talk about shooting one's
> self in the foot). They should have filled up the band just to prevent
> competition.
>
> We have in band because the industry wanted and developed the early part
> of it themselves.
>
> R
>
>
> >
> > Imagine a band created where we could set the bitrates to whatever we
> > want and do 5.1 or truly HD radio...........oh wait Im sleep typing
> > again.
>
>
> See above. Broadcasters gave it away.
>
> R
>
>
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