NAB Tells FCC They're Not Reading Their Own Report Correctly > 70 Congresscritters have also questioned unlicensed devices

70 Congresscritters have also questioned unlicensed devices

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Senator Mary Landrieu (D-LA)
Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK)
Senator Pete V. Domenici (R-NM)
Senator Charles E. Grassley (R-IA)
Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC)
Senator Johnny Isakson (R-GA)
Senator Saxby Chambliss (R-GA)
Senator Olympia Snowe (R-ME)
Senator Susan Collins (R-ME)
Rep. Marilyn Musgrave (R-CO)
Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC)
Rep. John Spratt (D-SC)
Rep. J. Gresham Barrett (R-SC)
Rep. Henry E. Brown (R-SC)
Rep. David Davis (R-TN)
Rep. Ric Keller (R-FL)
Rep. Bobby L. Rush (D-IL)
Rep. Jim Cooper (D-TN)
Rep. Vito J. Fossella (R-NY)
Rep. Eliot L. Engel (D-NY)
Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney (D-NY)
Rep. Howard P. McKeon (R-CA)
Rep. Leonard Boswell (D-IA)
Rep. Sanford Bishop (D-GA)
Rep. Marion Berry (D-AR)
Rep. Lincoln Davis (D-TN)
Rep. David Scott (D-GA)
Rep. John Barrow (D-GA)
Rep. G. K. Butterfield (D-NC)
Rep. Howard Coble (R-NC)
Rep. Robin Hayes (R-NC)
Rep. Walter Jones, Jr. (R-NC)
Rep. Mike McIntyre (D-NC)
Rep. Sue Myrick (R-NC)
Rep. Melvin Watt (D-NC)
Rep. Bob Etheridge (D-NC)
Rep. Brad Miller (D-NC)
Rep. David Price (D-NC)
Rep. Heath Shuler (D-NC)
Rep. Gene Green (D-TX)
Rep. Ralph Hall (D-TX)
Rep. Charles Gonzalez (D-TX)
Rep. Sam Johnson (R-TX)
Rep. Nick Lampson (D-TX)
Rep. John Carter (R-TX)
Rep. Al Green (D-TX)
Rep. Steve Chabot (R-OH)
Rep. Dave Hobson (R-OH)
Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH)
Rep. Patrick Tiberi (R-OH)
Rep. Steven C. LaTourette (R-OH)
Rep. Tom Price, M.D. (R-GA)
Rep. Lynn Westmoreland (R-GA)
Rep. Jack Kingston (R-GA)
Rep. David Scott (D-GA)
Rep. John Lewis (D-GA)
Rep. Phil Gingrey, M.D. (R-GA)
Rep. Tom Latham (R-IA)
Rep. Robert Aderholt (R-AL)
Rep. Jo Bonner (R-AL)
Rep. Mark Souder (R-IN)
Rep. Frank LoBiondo (R-NJ)
Rep. Jon Porter (R-NV)
Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-CO)
Rep. Shelley Berkley (D-NV)
Rep. Christopher Shays (R-CT)
Rep. Michael Michaud (D-ME)
Rep. Tom Allen (D-ME)
Rep. Bart Gordon (D-TN)
Rep. Frank Pallone Jr. (D-NJ)

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Hmmm, I wonder what why those critters are questioning it?

Which could it be:

1. Lost revenue from not auctioning off the freqs.
2. Worried about possible interference.

I'll be its number 1. Those people are AWESOME RF engineers!

reply to fAcEtIOUs
So... those are the ones whose staffers returned calls from the NAB lobbyists right?

I find it hard to believe there are 70 people on Capitol Hill who've even heard of white space interference, let alone understand it well enough to form an opinion.

reply to fAcEtIOUs
Ironically most of the ones complaining (I'm looking at you microphone manufacturers!) already use this white space and they're simply worried about another device actually being given official rights to use it versus their just out and out doing it. Most of them also don't even try to find unused space near as hard as the proposed white space internet devices would. The number of unlicensed, unauthorized microphones using these spectrums are WAY higher than the number of licensed ones.

reply to fAcEtIOUs
Intel senior research fellow Kevin Kahn, in an interview with Epicenter, points out that there are already is a group using White Space television frequencies to broadcast data—the very same wireless microphones that manufacturers are claiming will be disrupted by the technology.

"Today, this space is actually heavily used with wireless mics and nobody seems to notice," he says. "Not the TV people, no one. If you look at wireless mics that people like Shure make (Shure is one of the companies lobbying against opening this space up), they actually operate on these TV channels, the ones that are only supposed to be run by people in studios. Well, nobody seems to notice when these things are turned on so I don't see how you can argue there's going to be this massive interference problem."

»gadgets.boingboing.net/2008/03/2···ead.html

reply to ualdayan
I spent 10 years as a live sound engineer in the midwest using wireless and I under stand. If you use a wireless in a general area and never move around once you find an open Freq. you are ok. But in my experience we had several different wireless systems depending on the area are setting up in. Lets say if I was in East Lansing( Michigan State) I had to us one of the multi-channel auto systems because of on campus walki-takies, police, TV and Radio stations( broadcast, two way com links btw transmitter and station and MaRTY links) CB, trains( communications ), wireless telephones, and LABs on campus are some of the interference problems I have experienced. Not every one is using the newest systems in for the communications and some old systems are still in place for backups when the new systems go out. I had to do a wireless site survey and grade channels from open plane old crud. And still, we would get a stray interference with multi antenna systems. Thank god for Fiber snakes but sometimes wireless is the only way to go. If we were in a crud area we would use short distance and multi channel systems and listening for crud is the path.

reply to jester121
I'll go out on a limb and suggest that this list also represents congress critters that got substantial donations from the NAB, ATT, etc.

seems to be mainly Repubs and blue dog dems

reply to farg
The freqs would not be auctioned off since they're already leased to the broadcasters. I'll bet the resistance is a combination of #2 and 3.

3. "Influence" from incumbents and the NAB.

reply to fAcEtIOUs

yea yea yea they said the same thing about evdo