Attachment withdraw

withdraw

WITHDRAWAL submitted by WCS Coalition

withdraw

2008-01-08

This document pretains to SAT-STA-20071219-00178 for Special Temporal Authority on a Satellite Space Stations filing.

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     January 8,2008
                                                    FILED/ACCEPTED
                                                       JAN -8 2008
     Ms. Marlene H. Dortch
     Secretary
     Federal Communications Commission
     445 Twelfth Street, SW
     Washington, DC 20554

                    Re:     Requests Of XM Radio Inc. For 60 Day and 180 Day Special Temporary
                            Authorizations Regarding Digital Audio Radio Service Terrestrial
                            Repeater - File Nos. SAT-STA-200712 14-00175 and SAT-STA-
                            20071219-00178

     Dear Ms. Dortch:

             On December 20, 2007, I wrote on behalf of the WCS Coalition expressing concerns
     regarding the above-referenced requests by XM Radio Inc. (“XM”) for 60 day and 180 day
     special temporary authorization (“STA”) to operate a new type of low-power Digital Audio
     Radio Service (“DARS”) terrestrial repeater in Vienna, VA. Last Friday, XM amended these
     applications to provide both additional information and new certifications regarding the manner
     in which this new repeater will operate. In light of this new information and the new
     certifications made by XM, the WCS Coalition hereby withdraws its opposition to XM’s request
     for STAs that will allow the installation of this single low-power repeater in Vienna, VA.

             Attachment 2 to XM’s amendments suggests that XM ultimately intends for repeaters of
     this sort to proliferate. This is neither the time nor the place to debate the rules and policies that
     should govern wider deployment of similar devices. It must be noted, however, that the WCS
     Coalition’s willingness to withdraw its opposition to the above-referenced applications is
     expressly premised on XM’s installation of just a single device at a single location that is known
     to the WCS Coalition in advance and that is under XM’s direct control. The WCS Coalition
     reserves the right to object should XM propose to deploy additional devices of this type.


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      Marlene H. Dortch
      January 8,2008
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              Should you have any questions regarding this submission, please contact the undersigned.




                                                      Paul J. Sinderbrand

                                                      Counsel to the WCS Coalition

      cc:    Stephen Dual1 (via email)
             Alyssa Roberts (via email)
             Shabnam Javid (via email)
             James S. Blitz (via email)



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