Logan 5
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|  Can someone please explain
2 things to me please to help me understand this topic better:
1) What exactly could someone do with my old channel 78 other than broadcast a TV signal.
2) How can all the empty channel frequencies really be worth 70 Billion?
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BuckarooB
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| cell phones, pagers, you name it... open up those previously off limit frequencies to business and it can be used a variety of things, many of which we probably not thought of yet.
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DaDogs
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I could deliver you six megabits of wireless broadband thirty miles from my tower.
The answer to number one is the answer to number two.
The FCC is positioning itself to open up a BUNCH of spectrum which is currently unused, and to place some of it into the ISM bands.
Just as it cost a whopping lot of money for an ARLAN 655 wireless card, when they were a new technology, and now the equivalent can be had for $25.00. Ditto HDTV, it is about economies of scale. Larger markets create economies of scale and you wind up being able to buy nicer stuff at lower prices.
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rchandra
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said by Logan 5  :
2 things to me please to help me understand this topic better:
1) What exactly could someone do with my old channel 78 other than broadcast a TV signal.
Let's see...a data link? police coordination? more cell/PCS phone channels? anything and everything radio signals are used for today? It's simply a redesignation of what those frequencies are allowed to be used for in this country.
said by Logan 5 :
2) How can all the empty channel frequencies really be worth 70 Billion?
It all depends on how much spectrum is reclaimed, what the new purpose(s) of the spectrum is (how much spectrum per new channel is required), and how much is charged per reallocated channel--including if that spectrum is auctioned to the highest bidder.
As to all of this, I would agree that for a large proportion of the US public (probably quite a bit more than the majority), owning HDTV gear at today's prices is just not worth it. several hundred dollars for a receiver? ack. If I part $150 for a TV, it's a lot. Let's not even make my blood boil by talking about ceding my fair use rights with that broadcast flags crap. That's also not to mention deciding whether to get an HDTV tuner card or replacing both my NTSC/VHS VCRs...but then again, those sorts of devices may be rendered useless or close to it by broadcast flags.
Golly...and they wonder why I don't want to upgrade, and why I don't want my taxpayer dollars wasted trying to get me to do it.
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djrobx
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Valencia, CA | reply to BuckarooB
or, wireless broadband!
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DaDogs
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Yep.. There ain't much bandwidth available below 1000 MHz. That's the big deal.
It is one of those, ELF has certain *SPECIAL* properties that are worth billions to the right bidder.
Ditto LF, MF, HF, VHF, UHF and then we get to microwave.
The VHF/UHF spectrum is probably the single most valuable short range (less than 100 miles) broadcast spectra in the entire spectrum for data transmission. It is well past the time that we kicked the TV bastids off those channels and used them for what they are best suited, digital data.
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John Galt
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Spectrum is one of the few things in the world (universe, what the heck...!) that are truly finite.
Now, if something is only available in an extremely limited quantity (like spectrum) then the sky is the limit for what its value is...
$70 billion just barely touches what the 'real' value is... |
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