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[Don Latham]

And I will not pay telephone prices for wideband data service. Pfui.
Don

gary
> There is also a proposal to pay commercial TV stations to move together
> as a cluster, then chop off part of the TV band for wireless. The
> current market simply will never fill the allotted DTV spectrum.
> [Cable/satellite/internet-streaming filled the void.] It is a bit
> nauseating to pay the broadcasts for spectrum that they never paid for
> in the first place.
>
> While I don't favor paying the broadcasters, I like everything else
> about this approach. Further, I'd get rid of VHF DTV all together. In
> the transition period, we did just fine when they were all on UHF. Save
> VHF for public service. I'd even grant the old VHF users an extra
> site/channel or two to make up for lost range.
>
> Currently the wireless companies in the US, at least the two major GSM
> providers, are dumping the 2G service to recover that spectrum. It is
> probably cheaper to migrate the 2G customers to 3G, then convert the old
> spectrum to LTE, than to buy new spectrum for LTE.
>
> As I have stated here before, there is already a satellite mobile
> service with ground transmitters, namely XM and Sirius. That system
> works today, and one of the bands is completely redundant after the
> merger. Let Light Squared pay off Sirius XM if they need a functional
> band. They could use the money.
>
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