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Comments on news posted 2008-08-12 08:59:59: The FCC recently announced (pdf) they've started field testing of "white space" broadband devices. ..
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  MattAll noise, no signal.Premium
join:2003-07-20
Jamestown, NC
kudos:12 |  It's called the scientific method
I question the amount of bandwidth they'll be able to deliver and I have a hard time containing my laughter when the word "free" is thrown around by the companies behind these devices. | |
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1 edit | Re: It's called the scientific method said by Matt:While it sucks they didn't get it right on the first few tries, I have confidence the devices will work. I question the amount of bandwidth they'll be able to deliver and I have a hard time containing my laughter when the word "free" is thrown around by the companies behind these devices. Google is the one always using the FREE comments. But of course Google will claim that, since all their money comes from ads. If they really wanted free, they would quit preaching and get in to offering the wireless service themselves instead of berating Verizon Wireless, AT&T, etc for not offering a free service.
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| | | MattAll noise, no signal.Premium
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Jamestown, NC
kudos:12 | Re: It's called the scientific method said by fAcEtIOUs:If they really wanted free, they would quit preaching and get in to offering the wireless service themselves instead of berating Verizon Wireless, AT&T, etc for not offering a free service. I can't help but agree with that. Just like any other business, Google wants someone ELSE to pay for it. | |
| | | | | | Re: It's called the scientific method said by Matt:said by fAcEtIOUs:If they really wanted free, they would quit preaching and get in to offering the wireless service themselves instead of berating Verizon Wireless, AT&T, etc for not offering a free service. I can't help but agree with that. Just like any other business, Google wants someone ELSE to pay for it. Aw, comeon, I thought Google was going to save the world! | |
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|  KrKHeavy Artillery For The Little GuyPremium
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| My understanding is the reason it's called "free" bandwidth is because it's available, unlicensed spectrum. As in "free" from having to buy it off the Government.
It's not un-used spectrum, more like "wasted spectrum". The idea behind white noise devices is that they find and use the "spaces" between the transmissions being used by others.
IE, it's a design to improve spectrum efficiency. It has a lot of promise, but they need to work on it obviously due to the complexities of interference and not disrupting existing communications in said spectrum.
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| | Bias. "One microphone vendor says they couldn't"
Er, it'll be news when the FCC announces they couldn't stop the devices from interfering with liscenced mics. The microphone vendors were saying that before the tests even began! | |
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Banks, OR | So What?? Personal/portable white space devices would be very low power, and only able to cause interference if they were close by. NFL stadiums could simply prohibit them on the property - just like they prohibit other things from being borught into the stadium. This is no different than cell phones being prohibited in hospital cardiac care units, or WiFi on airplanes.
What Shure is really worried about is that they know that >90% of their TV Band wireless microphone products are not being used by licensees entitled to use them (like football TV program producers), but are in fact being used illegally by unlicensed users in places like night clubs and churches. Shure has been fine with selling these into the retail channel, where any idiot would know they would wind up in the hands of unlicensed people, to be used illegally. Illegally used microphones would have no protection from the FCC against interference from white space devices. That scares Shure and the other microphone vendors; 90% of their business, built on illegal activity, would be affected | |
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