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Dave Hughes' Campaign To Connect 6 Billion Brains

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Sunday January 19, 2003 @06:31PM from the yes-there-are-good-guys dept.

polarfleece writes "The Asociated Press has a fine story about Dave Hughes, one of my personal heros. For those of you who may never have heard of him, he is THE pioneer in the use of wireless networking for mass connectivity. His main website is at wireless.oldcolo.com." An anonymous reader also point to the profile of Hughes accompanying the article.

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Re:But... by BrookHarty · 2003-01-19 19:15 · Score: 4, Interesting

Found more info that was quite interesting, pissed me off.

Hughes is lobbying for the FCC to increase the power to at least 5 watts, which would expand the service area to 50 to 70 miles. That would make a big difference in rural areas, he noted. The FCC staff originally recommended that the transmissions be allowed at up to 100 watts at any frequency above 75 mhz. The spread-spectrum technology allows practically unlimited transmissions without interference, Hughes said, but the objections of companies such as Motorola and Bell South helped to stunt those potentially visionary rules.