PDXPLT
join:2003-12-04
Banks, OR
| reply to Sammer
Re: Should be treated like LPTV
said by Sammer  :Rural broadband providers using television spectrum should be licensed similarly to LPTV because except for the use of transceiver devices it's really much the same and it would be fairest to everyone. For so-called "access" white-space devices, that certainly woould be a fair and equitable way. The way the FCC defines these, they are WISP-type devices, alhough they are currently proposing them to be unlicesensed.. IEEE is even working on a standard for them, 802.22. Although the broadcasters and the wireless microphone makers (both legal and illegal) are working in that group, seemingly to delay the standard as much as they can.
I believe what's being discussed here is lower-power wi-fi-like "personal/portable" devices, designed for short-range LAN communications. What would be "fairest to everyone" is if they were treated by the FCC the same as the hundreds of thousands of low-power unlicensed devices already in the TV band; namely, the legal ones (TV remote controls) and the illegal ones (unlicensed wireless microphones). Despite what the NAB says, these have been operating for many years in "white space", and the sky hasn't fallen. |
