NTIA Acting Assistant Secretary Michael Gallagher presented opening remarks at the United Telecom Council Telecom 2004 conference in Nashville, TN. His PowerPoint presentation, just posted on the NTIA Web site (URL is a the bottom of this message), includes some specifics that we had not previously seen with regard to the NTIA's Phase 2 report. His comments noted that the NTIA Phase 1 technical study "showed that interference risks are high under existing FCC Part 15 rules," but that "risks can be reduced through refined compliance measurement procedures" and "there are numerous other means for reducing risk and mitigating interference if it occurs." He claims that the Phase 2 analysis shows that ionospheric propagation and aggregation of interference "is not a potential near-term problem." It will be interesting to see the justification for this claim and the explanation of what is meant by "near-term." Is it OK to go ahead with a bad idea if the problems it causes are sufficiently far in the future? The final slide contains the statement "Our BPL study of more than 10 million signal samples shows that solutions exist to all identified BPL technical issues." This is true only if you include shutting a BPL system off, and keeping it off, as a "solution." Dave K1ZZ http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/speeches/2004/utc_05172004.ppt