Chaldo
join:2008-03-18
West Bloomfield, MI | reply to VansHSI
Re: All hail Metro
I liked that I saw metro PCs on the list, I wonder who will have a better lte network in this round AT&T or VERIZON. |
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anjorusso
@speakeasy.net
| lte??? what lte???
The future of all 4G (4th Generation Wireless) networks are unclear right now because the Whitespace Broadband technology is a game changer, but that has in the past failed when confronted with the reality of the slow pace of change in communications. Politically this time may be different, there is a lot of power behind the Whitespace Broadband and we should find out soon how fast the changes will happen. June 12, 2009..... I think is the date TV stations change to digital broadcast. this could make all 4G technology obsolete before it gets out of the box! Whitespace Broadband is so different it may some day be called 5G. I've been reading about the these changes for eight years starting with a Wired article titled "Broadband Cowboy" an article about DeWayne Hendricks a very smart guy with no education related to technology! |
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patcat88
join:2002-04-05
Jamaica, NY
| Whitespace is dead.
A. Obama's campaign was bankrolled by the entertainment industry, which includes broadcasters.
B. It takes for one case of interference, or something going wrong, and a formulaic human interest story by the local TV news stations on how some poor man/family with children can't watch OTA TV the way they used to because of random signal going out which is "linked" to new experimental whitespace devices. That one story will get amplified by 24/7 cable news, Reuters/AP, mainstream media and bloggers, until there is a "grassroots effort" to ban the devices as being "pirate radio" and anarchy and dissolution of law and order.
C. What if people start to manipulate the GPS data being fed into the devices, or hack them for more tx power, faster speeds, etc? Nomadic whitespace base stations are even more dead than licensed whitespace base stations. If broadcasters have to pay to track down interference because the FCC doesn't have funds/time/etc to police whitespace users, that standing for a lawsuit and a permanent injunction.
At a certain point, no matter what you do, wireless and digital data and SNR and shannons law just don't cut it. If you don't want caps or speeds in the kbitps range, you need to have a tower at every intersection or traffic light. With that cost, FIOS/Fiber/Cable Internet is many times cheaper. |
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patcat88
join:2002-04-05
Jamaica, NY
| reply to Chaldo
Re: All hail Metro
said by Chaldo  :I liked that I saw metro PCs on the list, I wonder who will have a better lte network in this round AT&T or VERIZON. Verizon, management/executives are less thrifty on capital expenditure than AT&T. |
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anjorusso
@speakeasy.net | reply to patcat88
Re: lte??? what lte???
yeah okkkkkkkk like bill gates and larry page will give up just like that...aha....so who has more money?? sprint??? verizon?? or bill gates and the gang?? come onnnnnn...white spaces will choke out lte and wimax combined... mmm kay...you know it |
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me1212
join:2008-11-20
Pleasant Hill, MO | reply to patcat88
It ain't dead. |
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