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| I like and dislike
This is a plan that tests me --
I don't like the idea of a plan that offers 100% nationwide coverage or it gets pulled in 10 years. You know what's going to happen -- what we in technology call the "ninety-ninety" rule. And then what? (Oh yeah, and I hate the filters and I have doubts that what we'll get will be "broadband" even in current sense, let alone 10-years-from-now sense.)
That said, I like the out-of-the-box thinking here. These frequencies are dregs. If not auctioned, they won't be used. This is like the 3M R&D experiment that led to post-it notes. It won't hurt anything to try it, and even if we end up with something completely different than expected, it'll be interesting to see what we get.
I think the Commissioners have enough info -- if they can shut the corporate lobbyists off and put their jurist hats on, I won't decry a decision either way too much.
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DavePR
join:2008-06-04 | How do you figure these frequencies are "the dregs"? Sirius and XM seem happy enough living in the neighborhood. |
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funchords
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Washington, DC | Only because they're tiny and non-contiguous blocks. I seriously had to ask around as to whether they were big enough to be useful.
A single 802.11b channel uses more spectrum than we're talking about here. |
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DavePR
join:2008-06-04 | If the spectrum is 25 MHz and it lies between 2155 and 2180 MHz, how can it be non-contiguous?
802.11[b] is spread spectrum. |
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funchords
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| Looks like you're right -- in June 2008 it became 2155-2180 MHz -- maybe it was AWS-2 that I was thinking of.
»hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/a···20A1.pdf
802.11b channel centers are 5 MHz apart but the signals are 20 MHz wide ... looks like this:
img: »cp.home.agilent.com/upload/cmc_u···trum.jpg
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