
Granted!
I would grant them their option to exceed deorbiting rules as long as their satellite is at or below an orbit of 550 km
( It takes about 5 years for debris at 550 km to naturally deorbit due to atmospheric drag (depending on mass and surface area, amount of X-rays from the sun absorbed and warming the thermosphere, oh and disturbances to earths magnetic field ). So to stay in orbit they would need to use fuel, and once their fuel is gone they will deorbit in about 5 years *evil grin*). Once you get to 2000 km natural deorbit takes about 20 thousand years, and higher than the Exosphere (10,000 km) there is no atmospheric drag and the objects will never de-orbit. Most GPS satellites orbit roughly above about 20,000 km.