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New Rules for the 2495-2690 MHz band
(old news - 09:43AM Monday Jun 14 2004)
tags: fcc · wireless
A chunk of wireless spectrum set aside for educational institutions cannot be sold, according to new rules (Word document) passed down by the FCC last week. Those institutions can however still lease any owned spectrum, according to the Washington Post (free reg required). The FCC also announced they'd be reorganizing the traffic in the 2495-2690 MHz band by grouping high and low power users into separate portions of the band - something the FCC claims will encourage greater volume without interference.

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rstrandb
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Another revenue source

If they lease that bandwidth out and use the money to defray tuition expense, I think this is a great idea. However since this does include government involvement, I'm sure it will get screwed up somehow.
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permalink · 2004-06-14 09:58:06 · Reply to this

rfnut
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Re: Another revenue source

many colleges have been leasing their excess airtime to companies that run ( or used to ) wireless cabletv for many years. In the MMDS heyday it was not unusual to pay upwards of 50,000 a year to lease the airtime. Throw in the equipment is usually provided free to the college and this was a good little revenue source for the technology sections of the colleges.
I am glad to see the spectrum was not taken away. I work with several ITFS partners who utilize at least part of their spectrum for educational programming and to have it sold out from under them would not be very nice.
permalink · 2004-06-14 10:26:13 · Print · Reply to this
vic102482
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said by rstrandb See Profile:
If they lease that bandwidth out and use the money to defray tuition expense, I think this is a great idea. However since this does include government involvement, I'm sure it will get screwed up somehow.
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Schools lower tution?:o Ha!:p Dont make me laugh, just more money for them to put in the vault and give to the dean.
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permalink · 2004-06-14 11:08:35 · Print · Reply to this

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 This band has always been the red-haired stepchild of the licensed spectrum group...lots of failed commercial ventures (Tele-TV?), lots of scammers and charlatans promising naive educators the world and leaving them with the poopy end of the stick.

ITFS folks beat back the cell phone carriers with their 3G spectrum grab back in 99-2000 when Europe was kooky with that big flop of an idea. This ruling beats down Intel this time around (read the comments filed). The push was for WiMAX or similar wireless MAN systems (cha-ching! for Intel, they thought), fully owned by commercial interests (cha-ching! for Sprint -- they filed comments too). Intel really tripped on its own crank this time and even apologised to several members of Congress after the ruling for their over-the-top lobbying efforts.

The eligibility ruling is just a small step towards the re-purposing of the band though. There are still a lot of technical issues to be resolved. Lots of ITFS users are still xmitting 6MHz NTSC; this has to be morphed into a digital system so that the band can be segmented into one-way (i.e. broadcast video) and two-way systems (i.e. WiMAX). The FCC has also warned license holders that they're going to be watching the utilization of the band very closely now. No more squatting on that channel group Mr. Podunk Unified School District!

The next few years should prove interesting. The key will be getting the commercial interests and the educational license holders to work intelligently together...
permalink · 2004-06-14 12:33:39 · Print · Reply to this

calvoiper

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said by rstrandb See Profile:
If they lease that bandwidth out and use the money to defray tuition expense, I think this is a great idea. However since this does include government involvement, I'm sure it will get screwed up somehow.
Uhh, have any of the religious/educational institutions that own this spectrum been applying the leasing proceeds to child molestation verdicts?

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permalink · 2004-06-14 23:12:56 · Print · Reply to this

Mike
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hold up

2495-2690 MHz

Woah woah woah... that's a 2.4ghz band.. that's the "cancer zone".

2.2 - 2.6 should be banned completely.
permalink · 2004-06-14 10:28:43 · Reply to this
apsinkus

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Re: hold up

Woah woah woah... Would you care to share with us your sources? How about published papers that point to your claim being valid?
My wife is cancer bio PhD, so I will be more than glad to run your facts by her, before we go koo-koo here.
permalink · 2004-06-14 12:50:54 · Reply to this

Mike
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Re: hold up

What's the resonance frequency of water?
permalink · 2004-06-14 13:20:22 · Reply to this

drjim
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Re: hold up

"Non-Ionizing" radiation, like RF, has never been connected with cancer.
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permalink · 2004-06-14 16:18:54 · Reply to this
apsinkus

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Re: hold up

Mike, dude, preach once you have qualifications. Cancer is caused by mutations, not you "water resonance".
permalink · 2004-06-15 00:20:39 · Reply to this

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Re: hold up

sigh...

water = H2O.

Water molecules move with respect to one another, rotate, and even vibrate along the connections between the atoms.

Once a pure molecule becomes bombarded with it's specific frequency by EW, it will vibrate more violently and collide with other molecules. The collisions will make use of the fundamental theory of friction and it will "heat up". Making a wine glass sing, opera singers breaking glass, MRI/NMR are examples of resonance.

Once the "excited" molecule reaches a certain level (varies between cell makeup, your wife should know this part) this can make the cell unstable and it will chemically change or.. oh damn, mutate... some die and are removed or some adapt. It will then either be repaired or it will continue as a "crippled" cell. I won't even getting into mag shielding, because, I frankly don't care.

PS, I hope that's the wife typing and not the registered user. Physics has had the answer to some forms of cancer prevention since the 1800s.
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permalink · 2004-06-15 08:51:23 · Print · Reply to this

drjim
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1 edit		 Again, Mike.....
Non-Ionizing radiation has _never_ been directly linked to cancer. The thermal effects are well documented (rat-in-a-microwave) and will kill you or blind you, but cause genetic mutations?
Here's a list of articles documenting research on RF effects to human body, and the "Cancer Connection": »www.arrl.org/rfsafety/lapin/
Post a link, please.
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permalink · 2004-06-15 12:13:11 · Reply to this
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