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Comments on: Ofcom wants to see more unlicensed frequencies

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Posted Wednesday 5th December 2007 13:10 GMT

Black Helicopters

Find who ever wrote this paper, and fire them. They're obviously too competent and forward thinking to work for OfCom!

Giving away Spectrum? 

Posted Wednesday 5th December 2007 16:00 GMT

Paris Hilton

But....but....who will defend us from the Mysterons?!?!

Yeah, I know. Coat, hat, etc etc. Give a po' man a break!

Seriously though, there has to be a Paris Hilton angle here. Somewhere.

Giving away Spectrum? 

Posted Wednesday 5th December 2007 18:06 GMT

Boffin

Would that be a rubber keyed 16k jobbie, or a 48k Spectrum+? Can I have a Commodore 64 instead?

Some more lower frequencies would be nice 

Posted Thursday 6th December 2007 02:27 GMT

As everyone discovered with 11a there's a point where the wavelength gets so small that a typical room or office is just a mess of dead spots. So while more free spectrum would be welcome the best place to get it from would be from redundant UHF TV bands, not much higher frequencies. These frequencies are more user friendly and they're easily designed into low cost technologies.

The thing that's nice about the ISM (2.4GHz) band is that its such a lousy piece of crowded spectrum that its forced the mass production of incredibly sophisticated radios. If we used the rest of the spectrum that efficiently we'd have loads of room to work with.

@ Martin 

Posted Thursday 6th December 2007 09:59 GMT

There's a good reason why the useful, valuable bands aren't given away for free.

And, to be fair, it's good of them to be giving away the more useless parts of the spectrum.

Anywho, giving away the lower frequencies wouldn't be of any benefit to us. We wouldn't be able to make stuff for it. And it's too low bandwidth for anything other than piping music or voice around (Well, video too but power and bandwidth restrictions would degrade quality a fair bit).

Now lets see if their website can be made useful by giving it a clear sane logical layout.

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