FCC Commercializes More Bandwidth for 3G services

prostoalex writes "Federal Communications Commission opened up 90 MHz of previously reserved bandwidth for next-generation wireless services. The FCC news release (MS Word, PDF, apparently no HTML) specifies the following ranges to be available for commercial exploitation: 1710-1755 MHz and 2110-2155 MHz. Currently the licenses are issued to the business capable of providing "substantial service by the end of the license term", later on the licenses will be sold to the highest bidder. There's also this announcement about millimeter wave broadband frequencies."

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[IAR80]

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Re:About time

[CaptainAlbert]

Woooooo - flamebait!

So much misinformation in that I actually laughed... briefly...

Ethernet = CSMA/CD, that is, Carrier Sense Media Access with Collision Detection. Only one station transmitting at a time. Works OK for packetised data. 3G uses CDMA - Code Division Media Access - all users share a common frequency band and their signals are spread across all the available spectrum, and scrambled with a code unique to that user so that they can be recovered. No collisions occur.

Modulating a Carrier Frequency - all broadband communication systems do this. Duh.

Video link on a 50Hz carrier = snake oil.

Video on the cellphone isn't a goal, it's available now with 3G networks.

High speed mobile comms requires microwave frequencies. "Low" frequencies are typically already allocated to AM and FM radio broadcasts, and higher ones to VHF/UHF TV. No beaurocracy needed.

I'm going to stop now and return to my normal colour. :)