inadvertently my A$$
Response: I sincerely doubt the sale was inadvertent.
Inadvertently?
Sure. I'm willing to believe that.
And I'm sure that the Russian-educated citizen of Mali, INADVERTENTLY made the purchase.
>> during a 2008 bandwidth auction, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission inadvertently sold the operating frequency band of the B-2 bomber’s Raytheon AN/APQ-181 radar to an obscure firm headed by a Russian-educated citizen of Mali.
Well, if I were in charge, first of all I would go to this “russian educated citizen of Mali” (yeah. right.), tell him I was taking my bandwidth back, here’s his money back. With interest. Any questions? We’ll send a B-2 bomber over to discuss it. Yeah, that’s harsh. Tough.
Second of all, I would find the lazy incompetent morons in the FCC that were responsible for this, and hang them in public with piano wire. Just as an example to the others. That’s harsh too. I’m just a harsh kind of guy.
Wasn’t the head of the FCC, Colin Powell’s son?
This sounds like a problem with the ITU, not the FCC.
Every country allocates their band space differently. For international allocations you need to go through the ITU, don’t you? Not sure how defense is handled.
If the guy causes any trouble, jam the hell out of all of his equipment. (I am interested in why he needs the frequencies anyway, and what kind of equipment he will be using).
When the USAF inadvertently sold some controlled items couple of decades ago (jet engines, I think), they were seized back at the point of a gun.
This is National Security for goodness sake!
If they can threaten to revoke a radio station's license for playing Rush Limbaugh, they certainly call this sale back!
This sale had to be illegal and it should be stopped.
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If the guy causes any trouble, jam the hell out of all of his equipment. (I am interested in why he needs the frequencies anyway, and what kind of equipment he will be using).
When the USAF inadvertently sold some controlled items couple of decades ago (jet engines, I think), they were seized back at the point of a gun.
This is National Security for goodness sake!
If they can threaten to revoke a radio station's license for playing Rush Limbaugh, they certainly call this sale back!
Well, if the Mali dood can figure how to stop the B-2 from using that frequency band he’s welcome to try.