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 Rattler
join:2001-04-13
Havertown, PA
1 edit | What about aircraft??? If you extend the premise that they should be able to charge for invisible, "etherborne wavicles" traveling above their land, how about charging a toll for every aircraft that overflies same! At least, with a very powerful telescope, they could get the tail number and substantiate that something did, indeed cross their property.
How the heck would they even know what cell phone signals were crossing above them - wait, unless they had records of signals communicating with towers, on their land, for which they are probably getting thousands of dollars, per month, per tower, in land rental fees!
For Pete's sake! I think someone in that tribe was doing a little too much peyote (importing it from SW USA - is that drugs across international borders - maybe the US and Canadian DEAs -or whatever the Canucks, no offense intended by that name, call it- should look into that?).
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 FiLPremium
join:2005-08-16
Silver Spring, MD | And the FCC is able to sell spectrum, because?
sorry, but noone hasyet too nswer that!
Think its safe to bring out the:
GOTCHa!!!!!
wagon...
see, the US Governement and FCC makes monies by selling various spectrums to private companies to try to establish "competition" which ALWAYS means one or two companies...fun huh?
This native american tribe's been around longer then us, so they've got to be given respect for lasting this long. Hence why I side with them in saying:
"And the FCC is able to sell spectrum, because?"
I also agree, but up a few cell phone blocking mechanisms, and watch the providers come a running with a "solution". | |
FiLPremium
join:2005-08-16
Silver Spring, MD | Re: What's that in snow lol...but man, you do edit, and edit, then RE-edit the edit...
don't think your first thoughts are gonna be funny enough pal?lol...grow some balls! hehe  | |
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Rattler
join:2001-04-13
Havertown, PA | reply to FiL
Re: What about aircraft??? said by FiL:And the FCC is able to sell spectrum, because? sorry, but noone hasyet too nswer that! Think its safe to bring out the: GOTCHa!!!!! What the heck does the FCC have to do with this??? It's a Canadian thing! That's not to say that an American Indian tribe may not get the same idea.
Secondly, the FCC doesn't "sell" spectrum, it "licenses" it for a fee. For some uses, the fee is $0, for others, it's hefty - depends on the application and total bandwidth consumed. If there weren't some control exercised over frequency usage, the airwaves would be chaos, as some bands already are.
Again, I ask: How can the Indians PROVE that any given cell phone signal actually passed over their lands?
If they put up jamming equipment, the cell phone companies wouldn't need to do anything. That stuff would be shut down pretty quickly by the gov't.
Secondly: If there are cell towers on their lands, you can bet your last nickel that they are already being compensated, and very well, for the use of that ground and they told the cell provider where it was allowed to be erected.
If you want to see how much say Native Americans have over the use of their land, take a trip up to Kitt Peak Observatory in AZ and stay on the mountain after 4 PM, even accidentally. You'll find out just how much control they have over the contents of your wallet.
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