 
TamaraB
Question The Current Paradigm
Premium
join:2000-11-08
Underway
 ·Verizon Online DSL
| Playing NiceAs long as this doesn't turn into another IP-Over-Powerline fight, it's cool! But one has to be ever vigilant that corporate greed will not bury existing technologies for the sake of more short-term profits.
Play nice, and all should be OK.
Bob
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Motor Vessel - Tamara B.
43' Long-Range Trawler
Cape Elizebeth ME.
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| PDXPLT
join:2003-12-04
Banks, OR
| What Microsoft should do ... ... is just start shipping them. Who cares if, "technically", they're not legal? That hasn't stopped Shure and the other wireless microphones companies from shipping their wireless microphones: about 90% of which are used without the Part 74 license that broadcasters and video producers are eligible for, that permits the license holder to legally operate them. So 90% of them are used illegally; the FCC doesn't seem to care. To be fair, the FCC should adopt the same attitude about other types of unlicensed devices operating in the TV white space. | |
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RadioDoc
Sortofadog
Premium,ExMod 2000-03
join:2000-05-11
Chicago, IL
·AT&T Midwest
| Re: What Microsoft should do ... The difference, and you know it, is that Shure's equipment is type accepted. There are no rules which specify that you have to produce a license to buy them. That argument is void.
Those other Part 15 devices you like to use as examples are similarly certified.
These devices can't even get past the type acceptance stage.
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join:2005-04-08
Riverside, CA | Want to see what unlicensed operation causes? Listen to CB some time. | |
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gaforces
United We Stand, Divided We Fall
join:2002-04-07
Santa Cruz, CA
·Cruzio Internet
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March 14th, @06:47PM
| Re: Want to see what unlicensed operation causes? CB is dead dead dead, not even x-mas cb'rs anymore. All thats left are the die hards and they don't mess around much. At least around my area. I wonder what happened to all those 1000w linears ...
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Vista ~ Less functional every day! | |
| EPS
join:2008-02-13
Hingham, MA
| Why Wi-Fi? What makes Wi-Fi over this spectrum more viable for deploying rural broadband than other methods- EV-DO, UMTS/HSPA, wireline technologies...
Of course, they're just using rural as an excuse to push the technology- of course it'll end up in urban/suburban areas, probably long before (if ever) it provides relief for rural areas consigned to satellite or dial-up over ancient lines. | |
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Grumblebumble
@citizip.com | Re: Why Wi-Fi? How about they just wire the rural areas with fiber and not have to worry about us for another 30-40 years like they did with copper. | |
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Transmaster
Don't Blame Me I Voted For Bill and Opus
join:2001-06-20
Cheyenne, WY
| Remember "LEO" Low Earth Orbiting satellites. Bill tried to push this. and It would have swallowed up part of the Amateur 70CM band. It was a big thing until the Air Force stepped and told Bill not only no, BUT HELL NO! The reason why the Air Force put the stop to it was LEO would have operated in the area of frequencies the Air Force uses to destroy malfunctioning missiles.
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| goalieskates
join:2004-09-12
Knoxville, TN | if Bill wants it If Bill wants it, it's probably not a good thing. | |
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gwion
wild colonial boy
Premium,ExMod 2003-08
join:2000-12-28
Pittsburgh, PA | Who'll EVER need more than... ... 640 k(Hz)?  | |
| Eric Martin
join:2005-06-19
66308 | Radio broadband is impossible for everyone.
need another way | |
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Bill Gates: More Spectrum, Please
