This is not the first time. They should have learned about trust but verify, harmonics, and guard bands from the LightSquared fiasco. There seems to be a problem with private consultants having more influence then what remains of the Engineering Staff at FCC.
I was reading a submission to the Commissioners the other
day from Megacorp G. saying they found no amateur radio or military use of 10 and 24 Ghz in northern California. Their flawed reasoning, was based on the fact that no licenses showed in the ULS data base with fixed locations near their test site. Ok, so Amateurs don't log their spectrum usage like a corporate spectrum user, and Mil assignments are in the classified portion of the NTIA database, not ULS. So the letter reads "Dear Commissioners, we found this under utilized spectrum, please let us use it for our experiment". As far as spectrum occupancy goes, nothing could be further from the truth.
Fortunately. DoD has a team that watches what FCC does, closely.
Steve