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It comes down to a limited number of slots being available in the 700-MHz band,which are used by broadcast TV channels 51-69,since they are pushing to put everythign on Hdef TV.

I belive this frees up the "air waves" to be used for wireless devices,I could be wrong, anyone smarter want to add to it?

The really important thing about these frequencies is how low they are. Lower frequencies lose less amplitude when traveling through obstructions, meaning they're more reliable for WANs.

So, could these freed up frequencies be used to put into place a more reliable, highly accessable form of wireless internet access across the USA? How about like, cell phone towers?

they said 24MHz is now free for public safty, i would think that would include things like police radios and things like that?

Originally posted by Moomoo2:

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So, could these freed up frequencies be used to put into place a more reliable, highly accessable form of wireless internet access across the USA? How about like, cell phone towers?

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Keep in mind, in order to use phone towers you'd have to pay for it. The open-access advocates want the FCC to require whoever buys the frequencies to allow access to anyone who can pay for it, unlike cable lines that don't have to be accessible to anyone but the cable franchise or DSL connections that don't have to be available for any internet provider except the phone company that owns the lines. Open access basically means allowing new players to come in without having to build their own infrastructure.

Originally posted by bullet159:

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they said 24MHz is now free for public safty, i would think that would include things like police radios and things like that?

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Yes.

What I cannot understand is how they can FORCE this "no more free TV channels" upon consumers and have no one fight back?

I mean...getting rid of "free TV" seems to me to be like giving a "legal monoply" of sorts to cable and sattelite companies that CHARGE customers access to just watch stupid TV!

In the future...everything is going to have a price if this keeps up.

This has nothing to do with whether TV is free. The frequencies aren't going to be used because the law mandates that they be replaced by digital signals. Since those digital signals are being implemented before the analog channels are gone they use different frequencies. That means when they stations go all digital they won't be using the current analog frequencies any more.

Originally posted by webe123:

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What I cannot understand is how they can FORCE this "no more free TV channels" upon consumers and have no one fight back?

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I don't know about you but "free" TV where I have always lived (and I have lived many different places) has always meant 2 or 3 channels that you could barely see or hear through the bad reception--even with good old rabbit ears.

These frequencies are valuable because they travel through objects quite well. Cell phone signals do not do that because they are at a higher frequency. This would be a great wavelength to create a high speed internet connection on, because it would work in peoples homes, and apartments. It would be a great solution to the WiFi projects some citys and towns have implemented, and conquer the problem of the WiFi not traveling into peoples homes well.

CUT THE SPANISH CHANNEL! Do many people watch it that much anyways?

Originally posted by WierdName:

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CUT THE SPANISH CHANNEL! Do many people watch it that much anyways?

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you forget my friend of all the nationalist pride in the "New Mexican" workers movement thats sweeping the nation :P

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Originally posted by WierdName:

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CUT THE SPANISH CHANNEL! Do many people watch it that much anyways?

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you forget my friend of all the nationalist pride in the "New Mexican" workers movement thats sweeping the nation :P

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Sorry, no hobla englis. ?hobla espenual(or whatever it is)?

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Originally posted by WierdName:

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CUT THE SPANISH CHANNEL! Do many people watch it that much anyways?

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you forget my friend of all the nationalist pride in the "New Mexican" workers movement thats sweeping the nation :P

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Sorry, no hobla englis. ?hobla espenual(or whatever it is)?[/quote]Mmm I speak zippy and can never remember what it is I am saying so meh :P
(what I said was it seems half the illegal workers coming in don't want to learn english and love their old country more)

Ya, that's why I said "?hobla espenual?" Cuz its like none of them even try to learn to speak english. They just expect everyone else to learn spanish so they can understand them.

Originally posted by lxfactor:

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they are speaking chinese

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Im glad im not the only one that could not make heads or tails out of this article.