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I just found this ad above a story on the King 5 website.

http://wirelessforamerica.org/

I wonder how long it will be before the wireless industry is pushing to use more space in the Public Safety and Amateur Radio bands? This of course would narrow the opportunities we have and create greater expense to the public if the bands have to be reallocated.

It looks to me like history may be trying to repeat itself.

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Wayne
KF7FYL

Its only a matter of time. We already have a company named LightSquared using the same line of "broadband crisis" BS as an excuse to encroach on frequencies which will desense GPS devices. It truly is a shame that some government and business interests would stoop so low as to deceptively market a "crisis" as an excuse to trash existing communication services. Shameful but certainly not surprising.

The financial failures of Metricom, Iridium, and Clearwire are but examples of why the postulations of the content of that website are simply false. Much underutilized microwave bandwidth could in the future be usefully applied if the bandwidth requirements ever materialize,
and that can only happen if the economy recovers, and the necessary
interconnect infrastructure (FIBER!) is in place to make it happen.

At some point the need for terrestrial FM and TV broadcasting will "go away" as demand for these services is vanishing before our eyes because this type of "one way broadband" can be delivered better by "non-terrestrial RF" and "landline" systems. Again, fiber optics replacing "copper" will be a big part of this, along with "better, faster, cheaper" satellite deployment. When this happens the "VHF/UHF broadcast" frequencies could be put to use for the "wireless devices"... using cellular style multi-site low-power frequency reuse infrastructures...

Eric
KB7DQH

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That is how the people at DARPA think. they take things and use them in unconventional ways, to see what happens.