Reply comments are supposed to address issues raised by the comments that are filed. No real harm done, but we thought we'd mention it. My website has been hit quite a bit since I put the Apple NII petition up. Jim and I have no idea how many comments are going to be filed with the FCC on this matter. To date, we have gotten very few queries on the issue.
Lots have people have access the petition, but there has been no followup discussion, etc.
Alas, if this doesn't change and a fair number of comments are filed in favor of this concept, then it will die an early death. Asking for 300 MHz of spectrum to be turned over to the public for its own use, without an auction, was a pretty gutsy move on Apple's part I believe. It continues in the tradition of the original Data-PCS petition they submitted to the FCC four years ago. At that time, no one really thought that the Commission would respond favorably to such a bold move on the part of the computer industry. Well, they did and the spectrum allocation for Data-PCS is history.