Open Spectrum: Toward Ubiquitous Connectivity

obiwan2u writes "ACM's Queue magazine has a moderately dense article describing how new intelligent radios may free up under-utilized spectrum bandwidth, possibly providing solutions to the last mile bottleneck."

Comments

This will never happen

[thinkliberty]

The FCC won't go for it. knowing Morse code is still a requirement to use HF ham bands, even though you can now use a computer to code/decode it. See www.nocode.org
I can't think of one positive the FCC has done for RF bandwidth in a long time. Why would they start with this?

Definition of intelligent radio

[allrong]

One that filters out all talkback and boyband/britney clone pop.

Elminate that and you've cleared up a large chunk of the spectrum!