[BC] Looks like we got snookered!

[DANA PUOPOLO]

Rob:

I have a cell phone that's PLENTY sensitive! My XM radio works in the 2 gHz
band, cost me 25 bucks and is plenty sensitive too. Works in the house without
the antenna even being near a window!

Wifi works in the 2 gHz band, is dirt cheap and plenty sensitive. My router
puts out 28 Mw and I can use my computer over 500 feet away.
My router cost 5 bucks after rebates. 

My 2 gHz and 5 Ghz cordless phones cost nothing and have great range. 

Seems to me that gAS fets are dirt cheap these days.....

-D

 

------ Original Message ------
Received: Tue, 03 Jan 2006 08:36:21 AM PST
From: Robert Meuser <Robertm at broadcast.net>
To: Broadcast Radio Mailing List <broadcast at radiolists.net>
Subject: Re: [BC] Looks like we got snookered!

Mike:

The part Dana missed is that part of the loooong roll out in Canada is that
they 
can not get L band radios that are sensitive enough. There is a lot of
blockage 
in those bands.  Cellular combats thats by having many local cells. Eureka
could 
also have a cellular structure, but is was not built out that way in Canada.

R

Mike McCarthy wrote:
> Dana....
> 
> The broadcasters, particularly the big guns didn't want the new spectrum 
> which would in effect give the peanut whistles equal footing in audio 
> quality and improved coverage. They STILL DON'T EITHER. This is long 
> before the last ownership dereg. took place and CC, et al. were able to 
> go on a buying spree. That and the industry and technology were not 
> prepared for a new band.  Things change....over 10 years.
> 
> Who could have imaged wireless broadband and the myriad of new things 
> which now requires spectrum for short distance communications needing as 
> much as they do now.
> 
> Yes, we got Ibiquity and I agree it's a neutered system which has great 
> harm potential to the AM band. But after seeing the LONG roll outs in 
> Britain and Canada, we're rolling out Ibiquity a whole lot faster here.
> 
> MM
> 
> At 05:58 AM 1/3/2006 -0800, DANA PUOPOLO wrote
> 
>> Check this out:
>>
>> http://www.upi.com/Hi-Tech/view.php?StoryID=20051230-083814-1294r
>>
>> If I recall, a slice of this spectrum was the VERY place where Eureka 
>> DAB was
>> to have gone. Hmmm...I'm wondering why the space wasn't available when
>> broadcasters wanted it (Seems the Pentagon needed it to test missles), 
>> but
>> when the cellular industry wants it: *POOF!!* there it is!
>>
>> Of did Ibiquity, the NAB and the "status quo" broadcasters get their 
>> way A la'
>> lobbying?
>>
>> I find it interesting that the ONLY people who GET DIGITAL RADIO SLOTS 
>> are the
>> ones that already own analog ones. Wasn't the original purpose of DAB to:
>> "Level the playing field"? I guess having a few consolidators owning 
>> most of
>> the good stations is level enough for the FCC and Congress.
>>
>> Well, it looks like the broadcasters (and their short term greed) just 
>> shot
>> themselves in the foot - AGAIN!
>>
>> See, one of the things the cellular industry is going to DO with this new
>> spectrum is deliver CONTENT (remember that word in earlier 
>> discussions?) to
>> the public.  Guess who's going to get short shrift as a result?
>>
>> The Broadcasters......
>>
>> I learned a moral a long time ago. It said: "Be careful of what you 
>> wish for,
>> because it might come true". The Consolidators and NAB wished for 
>> Ibiquity and
>> that's EXACTLY what they got - a crappy, neutered DAB system - but the
>> cellular industry gets the last laugh here, because THEY got (the) 45 
>> mHz of
>> spectrum that the consolidators and NAB gave up - to compete against 
>> them!
>>
>> Along with another 45 Mhz in the 2.1 gig band....
>>
>> -D
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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