[BC] Gaming the FCC process

[Dana Puopolo]

But that's my point-if you look at the complete record of the FCC it's dismal.
They can't get ANYTHING right! They are incompetant, mainly because they apply
political solutions to engineering problems.  They are corrupt-big law firms
and groups have access to them that the rest of us will never get. It's almost
like there are two sets of rules-the ones that apply to the connected and the
published ones that apply to the rest of us. They have resulted in us having
one of the worst broadcasting systems in the world, the worst telecom/PCS
systems (three completely non-compatible systems) in the world and an internet
that costs the most and is among the slowest (IIRC, we dropped to 23rd this
year). 

The best thing that could happen is for the FCC to be replaced with a
commission that's mainly run by engineers. Or maybe two commissions-one to set
policy and the other to regulate.

-D

From: Mark Humphrey <mark3xy at gmail.com>

That's correct.  If you know how to play the "307(b) preference" game
and can show a sufficient margin of new first or second NCE service on
paper, the point factors aren't even considered.

  But the population he really hopes to serve is in the mininum of
the pattern.  I expect the multipath from this thing to be horrendous,
but it only needs to stay that way for four years.

As Dana would say, this is *so* FCC, but if you don't take advantage
of all the legal tricks, you'll usually come out the loser.

Mark