PDXPLT
join:2003-12-04
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 |
