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DoD Dreams of Efficient Spectrum Usage

Posted by michael on from the spectrum-spectrum-everywhere-and-nary-a-drop-to-drink dept.

Unstrung writes "US Military research agency DARPA is sick of all those static-filled cellphone calls and dropped connections too. The shadowy eggheads are working on a way of using the bandwidth available today more efficiently."

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  1. GSM by Zephy · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Why not just convert everything to GSM? it works fine for the rest of the world. You never get static (digital transmission), and the call drop rate is a lot lower than analogue

  2. Re:Doubt it. by PD · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Let me shorten that down a bit for you:

    The efficiency isn't about money, it's about efficiently destroying the enemy, weighed against the expense of our own soldier's lives.

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    If tits were wings it'd be flying around.