NAB Sues FCC Over White Space Broadband > Here's the problem

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Re: Here's the problem

One doesn't have to be an aeronautical engineer to call someone to claims pigs fly, misinformed.

Where is the evidence that there will be widespread chaos at the hands of a tiny fraction of people possibly changing firmware in these yet to be invented devices?

For 2.4GHz, you made claims of "sewage" but that isn't from throws of people illegally modifying hardware. There is simply a lot of devices sharing that spectrum including such benign unmodifiable devices like microwave ovens and thus far, despite all this "trash", 2.4GHz devices function just fine.

Try using a 900MHz or 2.4GHz cordless phone in a densely populated area like NYC. When I lived there I couldn't. This is why a lot of people are buying DECT phones, because all of the WiFi trash is clogging up the 2.4GHz band.

900MHz cordless interference issues are of the analog variety. Your claim of DECT buying is pure conjecture. I just picked up a DECT phone not because it was DECT but because it was the cheapest cordless at Best Buy.

Even devices as powerful as microwave ovens have trouble taking down 2.4GHz gear...someone conceivably modifying a not-yet-invented white space device to increase the power 25% isn't gonna do shit just as it doesn't do anything in 2.4GHz.

Your claims of 2.4GHz "sewage" are based on the sheer number of devices (which is why you picked the NYC example) and their popularity, not because people are illegally modifying them. We can only hope that white space services are so popular that we see a huge market develop around it.

NAtB propaganda

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"NAB supports new technology and ending the digital divide," Wharton said. "What we can't support is a multibillion-dollar spectrum giveaway to Google and Microsoft that threatens interference-free television."

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"NAB supports new technology and ending the digital divide," Wharton said. "What we can't support is a multibillion-dollar spectrum giveaway to Google and Microsoft that threatens THE INSANE PROFITS OF BROADCAST television."

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