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Re: Why is this so complicated? Why would any company spend any money setting up the infrastructure for a network that relies on UNLICENSED spectrum?
I hate to break it to you, but if the incumbent phone company won't extend DSL to where you live and the incumbent cable company won't extend cable service to where you live, and you can't get a cellular option where you live, NO ONE is going to build the infrastructure to support this service where you live.
I know it sucks, but that's how the real world works. Using whitespace to magically deliver internet to everyone isn't going to happen.
I have yet to see how Microsoft/Google/et al plan to use the whitespace. Are they going to set up a cell phone like network (expensive, and as someone else pointed out, why not just use Wimax)? Are they going to set up one giant tower somewhere and blast a signal across a huge area (also expensive, interference prone, and one 6Mhz channel serving a lot of people isn't going to be speedy)? Are they going to rely on a mesh-type network and what are the details (who, in this day of caps and MPAA lawsuits is going to allow their fiber/DSL/cable to be the interface to a wider network based on these unlicensed whitespace devices)?
As you see, lots of questions and (at least I) haven't seen any details from the Microsofts and Googles of the world. Both have tons of money and could have bid on the 700 Mhz auction and didn't. |
