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To: Maurice Winn who started this subject2/16/2003 3:48:06 PM
From: Dexter Lives On   of 246
 
A visit to the comms kennel
By Loring Wirbel -- EE Times -- February 10, 2003 (10:23 a.m. EST)

I have a soft spot in my heart for both the "full-figured" and compact versions of the Advanced Telecommunications Computing Architecture, but I still had to laugh out loud when EE Times' Chuck Murray came back from Bus & Board with this quip from the irascible Ray Alderman of the VME International Trade Association: "CompactTCA is a dog, and AdvancedTCA is a dog with fleas."

The comment weighed on my mind, so I've decided to drop by the Telecom Humane Society to check up on some of its pound puppies:

- Right near the door is a large litter of pedigreed poodles, wearing tags that say "3G Licenses," that no one seems to want. I personally think the Supreme Court made a big mistake when it said that the Federal Communications Commission could not take away the licenses of bankrupt license holders and that the FCC should restore NextWave's goodies. But regardless of what one thinks of that decision, surely governments in the Americas and Europe were foolish to raise revenues based on sky-high prices for frequency bands that could be made obsolete by 802.11/802.16 combinations. Poor little 3G poodles, so pretty but so unloved.
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Won't you take one of these dogs home and show it some love?

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