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Technology Stocks : Broadband Wireless Access [WCII, NXLK, WCOM, satellite..]
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To: DUCT TAPE HAIR CLUB who wrote (736)10/2/1999 7:39:00 PM
From: Raymond Duray  Read Replies (1) of 1860
 
Hi DT,

What about the unlicenced spectrum?

Let me jump in here if you don't mind. A while back Dr. Levy wrote that he saw difficulties ahead with the greater use of the ISM channels, particularly when used by commercial vendors. I can report that this situation is already starting to occur here in Bend, OR where we have two local suppliers wireless service on the unlicensed spectrum, and already have inteference between the two systems. The result is greatly increased BER which totally stomps of the bandwidth. What Adaptive Broadband's Scharre proposes may have potential in the most remote of regions (the co-op phone company up in the Texas hill country comes to mind here), but in any dense urban area, this overuse of the spectrum will only lead to what has been dubbed "the tragedy of the commons", by George Gilder and many observers going back over the centuries, to the time when livestock were pastured on common land to the detriment of all.

HTH, Ray
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