The interesting thing to me about this pair of actions is that both were Spectrum Policy Task Force recommendations. The receiver standard issue was noncontroversial and even supported by NTIA. The interference issue was the dreaded "interference temperature" proposal that struck fear in the heart of all incumbents by proposing to quantify their rights and take them out of the ploitical "8th floor" arena. Both met the same fate. But oddly, a few weeks later the 700 MHz R&O basically implemented SPTF Recommendation #27 now called "public safety/private partnerships" - never mentioning SPTF.