Sammer
join:2005-12-22
Canonsburg, PA
1 edit | reply to nasadude
Re: Add affirmative action to the bidding
said by nasadude  :you've said this before, so I'll say what I did before - there are these things called "standards". 802.11 seems to be working out OK. For this to succeed, they have to set good standards that prevent interference. So far, the incumbents are doing their best to FUD up the process, we'll see if they succeed or not. The standards have already been reduced before the first device has even been successfully tested. The television spectrum is too crowded for these things to ever work everywhere if the FCC actually against the wishes of the White Space Coalition ever approved the standards that assured they didn't interfere. If they were really interested in standards these devices would be restricted to the low VHF channels for the first ten years. The dirty little secret is that they hope everyone moves to cable or satellite and free TV dies. |
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| said by Sammer :The dirty little secret is that they hope everyone moves to cable or satellite and free TV dies. Yes, it would be to Cable's (and satellite/FiOS/UVerse's) advantage if the new, competing free digital TV service didn't work so well. After all, that's how they built their business way back when, competing with crappy over-the-air analog signals.
And all the communication companies would LOVE to see all that gigantic, medium range VHF & UHF bandwidth relicensed to subscription services whether they are TV, phone, net or whatever.
Right now, thanks to some effort in putting up and aiming antennas, I have free digital TV with NO stream errors. I'm certain that will change if other devices using the band become common.
And no I don't work for a broadcaster, I'm just enjoying not having to pay the monopolistic, customer-hating cable company.
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Sammer
join:2005-12-22
Canonsburg, PA
1 edit | Sarcasm turned on! - Why don't we restrict each of the 210 TV markets to a maximum of twenty stations each. Limit them to maximum of 1 Kw on the seven high VHF channels and 50 Kw on 28 UHF channels. That will leave plenty of room for the unlicensed devices and the other 14 channels can be auctioned off for billions. - Sarcasm turned off! |
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