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I certainly get why the FCC would tread lightly around "lifetime incumbents". In a civilized country people would look at the overall issues, recognize it as a collective problem, and support using shared money to reorganize things to society's long-term benefit. But in the US the incumbents would squawk about government overreach and creeping socialism and how President John Wayne gave their grandpappy that spectrum and it was their god-given right to use it without communist agitators trying to take it away, using taxpayer money to boot.