To the Editor,
I read your opinion piece, and agree that the parties to the Consensus Plan seem like they cannot get on the same page.
I take issue with your statement that “a version of the best-practices approach has been in place almost as long as the interference. It obviously doesn’t work.”
There is a “best-practices approach” that DOES work, and has worked in a number of areas. It involves making Nextel clean up its transmitters, and sometimes some subscriber unit work. This approach has been around in the two-way world for eons; simply, the user causing the interference fixes the interference.
However, getting the FCC to enforce this, at least against Nextel, has gotten difficult at best.
I wonder how well it could work if we simply adhered to the principles that the two-way world has had for so long, AND got the FCC to do its job?
Blake Bowers
Frosty Towers Inc.
