[IRCA] Mexico Says Wait a Minute to IBOC

[Bill Harms <philcobill@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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please read. Bill
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http://www.rwonline.com/leslie_report/
Issue: Aug. 08, 2007

Mexico Says Hang on a Minute!

Mexico wants U.S. radio regulators to re-think their decision to allow 
AMs to go IBOC at night and FMs to operate on the extended hybrid 
digital carriers.

Our neighbors to the south say they are not happy the FCC authorized its 
recent “final” IBOC rules governing broadcast transmissions without 
first coordinating those through international treaties.

In a letter to Chairman Martin filed in the IBOC docket, the Mexican 
Federal Telecommunications Commission, which regulates communications in 
Mexico, states that “until technical criteria” have been established 
between the agencies to allow “optimal and efficient development of 
analog and digital radio broadcasting along our common border,” the 
commission should hold off on the two points made earlier.

Sources tell me they believe Mexico filed the letter so it would have 
standing in any proceeding on IBOC and to have a way to adjudicate 
interference claims for the border area. Indeed, the group also refers 
to possible interference from U.S. IBOC stations to Mexican stations as 
a reason to have the coordination completed according to treaties first.

The FCC handles coordination with the State Department, so perhaps the 
timing isn’t all up to the FCC.

Interesting development. As we recently reported, Mexico has agreed in 
principle to allow border stations to use FM IBOC, and that decision 
needs to be finalized and printed in Mexico’s version of the Federal 
Register.
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Bill Harms
Elkridge, Maryland
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