Good for them. Now that the FCC has granted the County’s waiver to use 8 Industrial/Business VHF frequencies to go along with the 20 or so VHF channels they already had, some of which are held in reserve for legacy systems or as backup in case the new P25-based system doesn’t work out for them as expected given coverage challenges, Flathead County, Montana must be the safest county in North America. New York City should be so lucky to have such spectrum assets at its disposal. What EWA is having trouble understanding are FCC statements in the Order that EWA had questioned whether “the Commission should sanction the use of Project 25 technology.” We didn’t ask the FCC to sanction any technology in our opposition to the County’s waiver. We did ask if the FCC had concerns about its nationwide use since the County justified its waiver request for I/B VHF channels on the “coverage difficulties and multipath propagation problems” it experienced in migrating to P-25 in its particular terrain.  Aren’t technology advances generally supposed to enhance spectrum efficiency, not increase spectrum demands?   We also had expressed issues with the county’s spectrum management habits, not with the number of mobiles they need to serve the citizens of the county and the “hundreds of thousands” of annual visitors. The FCC, on the other hand, agreed with the County’s position that 250 mobile units are not unreasonable for a system that serves “two Sheriff’s Departments, Three Police Departments, twenty three Rural Fire Departments, two Hospitals, 11 Ambulances [sic] Services, two City Fire Departments, US Forest Service Law Enforcement, Glacial National Park, Bureau of Land Management, US Marshals Service, US Customs, County Roads, US Border Patrol, Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms, two SWAT units, Montana Highway patrol and others from the State.”  Incredible, that’s over fifty mission-critical operations of which half appear to be Federal Agencies which are supposedly prohibited from using non-Federal Government spectrum. How are these Federal Agencies using non-Federal Government spectrum? That possibility is supposed to be near impossible.  With 28 VHF channels and 250 units, the arithmetic equates to approximately 9 units per channel. Several members have asked whether EWA would be filing a Petition for Reconsideration. Not this time.