Airspace For Cell Signals Is A Natural Resource > I call bullshit

I call bullshit

Well you have to consider this. The FCC "sold" the rights to those frequencies to the cell companies. Where did they get the right to sell the airspace over your house and mine? Because they are the government.

Now you or I trying to collect $$ from a cell company for our air space, sure, that won't fly. But it's because we don't own the airspace, the US Government does.

But an Indian Reservation IS a separate country under the law, so I could see SOME merit in this. It's no different than France selling spectrum, and then England wanting a cut for the signals traveling over England.
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reply to atuarre
Bullshit my ass that's a great idea. So in the same vein I'm suing you for breathing my air!

Hee.

You don't own air. Did you make the air? The same goes for this. These indians are just riddled with greed. Cell phone signals are not a natural resource. Cell phone signals do not come from the Earth. They come from cell towers.

Again, this is complete and utter greedy bullshit.

Well that don't matter when your dealing with absurdities.

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reply to Camelot One
The injins may be sovereign nations but they are a small "incident" from loosing their nations.

Treatys? In today's era, they're simple pieces of paper which can be run through a shredder.

IN MY OPINION, the indian sovereign nation is just a symbolic thing any more. I KNOW they are sovereign nations but like I said.. symbolic at best.

In the U.S., for example, that could be changed pretty quick.

- Cut them off from the U.S. They don't want the signals? cut them off! Place embargos on them, etc etc. Let them feast from the land.

- They can be starved off in many ways such as they were doing here in MN when the indians tried to flex their muscles.

Largely, we still, as the daddy nations, tell them what they can and can't do anyway. If they were truly sovereign, then why do WE regulate their gambling activity?

Last time I checked, the Indians didn't really have an army.. hell, in SD until recently, it was legal to shoot or kill Indians in groups of 5 or more as it was an old law having to do with a hostile attack.

This whole story is funny.
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reply to atuarre
you cant control where a radio signal goes from an omnidirectional antenna array, so this is a money grab that is all.
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reply to Camelot One
they won't answer that...but the posters WILL continue fanning their own flames...

im with u cam, how does one party "sell" the spectrum, but another party can't recoup from it being sold?

reply to fiberguy
why don't you just say what you're thinking: kill the indians. they interfere with making money. there. is it that difficult to voice what you believe? rather than dancing around it with subtle and not so subtle threats.

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reply to Kearnstd
Why would anybody be still using omnidirectional antennas for cell service these days.

reply to morbo
Wow! While you were busy shoving words in my mouth that I didn't mean, it seems that what's on your mind is killing the Indians.

I didn't think that at all.. what I did say, and said it pretty clearly was that their alleged country is symbolic. Like anything else, things can change. The U.S. could at any time take the land from them..

Very simple.. land is fought for, won, and taken all the time. The world's landscape has change much over time. Israel, the continent of Africa, the U.S., etc. etc. Borders change, people loose land.. it's the history of the world. Mexicans are still claiming that the South West U.S. belongs to them, that the U.S. took it unfairly. So?? Too bad. We battled, they lost.. it's ours.

It's life, and it's how things work like it or not. I know there are plenty of bleeding hearts that think we are bullies and need give back what we took.. those same people hate this country, and like Israel, probably shouldn't exist in the way we do today. (Those types can first give up their land and then get lost)

The only way to set things straight is to bring the world back to day one and reset the land to what the cooks of the world think it was.

My post was about the land, not the people.
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reply to yock
In a way, it could be argued that the country gave their portion of spectrum away without any compensation. When taken to the extreme though, what happens to satellite transmissions? Would the U.S. have to compensate every country on the planet because of GPS transmissions?
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reply to Stumbles

Lets have one more civil war. Blue vs. Red states