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In 1988, American Mobile Satellite Corporation (AMSC) was formed with the intention of providing a satellite telephone, fax and data network. It was ruled by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) that sufficient bandwidth existed for only one license to be issued for such broadcasting, which forced the competing firms to form the joint venture. It was the above named American Mobile Satellite Corporation (AMSC) who was granted the license. In 1992, CD Radio, who later changed their name to Sirius Satellite Radio, successfully petitioned the FCC and Congress to examine the creation of a new digital audio radio service in the United States (Uhle, 1998).
Seeing the potential of digital broadcasting the American Mobile Satellite Corporation created a new division of the company called American Mobile Radio Corporation (AMRC). This new company AMRC was one of four other potential digital broadcasters to apply for a license which would give them the potential to broadcast......

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