FCC Green Lights Use of White Space

[exfileme]

While many organizations aren't keen on the idea, the FCC finally approved the usage of unlicensed frequencies known as "white spaces."

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[Guest]

i love how america's companies just love to keep us behind so they can make more $.

 

[hellwig]

See, I thought the Microphone people were lobbying for this result (unlicensed use of the spectrum), but it sounds like they were lobbying against it. This is ironic, considering that (according to other stories related to this one), many microphones are themselves illegally using the spectrum without a license to begin with.

This seems to be similar to trespassing on private land for camping, then complaining when the owner opens the land up for everyone to camp there. The microphone manufacturers were enjoying free and illegal spectrum, and now they don't want to share.

I also agree that it seems pointless to open up new streams of Wireless internet access when so many Telecoms are complaining that they don't have the bandwidth to handle their paying land-based subscribers. But I suppose wireless is easier in that everyone shares the exact same connection, rather than supplying individual bandwidth to individual consumers.

 

[gm0n3y]

If the analog TV signals weren't interfering, why would the new digital ones?

 

[kentlowt]

What the Microphone manufacturers were wanting was a blocked off space that they could count on. Right now you have to have diversity type receivers because you can't count on using one frequency from one day to the next due to these changes. This gets even more complicated if you have more than one wireless microphone because if you move one it affects all the others since you have to make sure there is no harmonic interference caused by changing the frequency. It's a mess right now and looks like it will only get messier.

The analog tv signals were interfering adding the digital ones to that makes the crowding worse. Not only that but digital signals are taking up more space than the old analog signals were. So in the end even with the analog signals dropping out there will be less open frequencies for wireless microphones.

 

[kentlowt]

his seems to be similar to trespassing on private land for camping, then complaining when the owner opens the land up for everyone to camp there.

So what do you propose? Do away with all wireless microphones then?