UK Approves of 5.8GHz For Rural Broadband

Tandoori Haggis writes "BBC News reports a major decision by UK Government to approve the use of 5.8 GHz C-band for use with wireless broadband. A prime consideration is the desire to provide broadband access for rural areas where broadband cable might be prohibitively expensive to impliment. Previously there had been resistance to freeing up 5.8GHz because it is in an area of the RF spectrum used by C-band radars."

Comments

Re:line of sight

[PPGMD]

The solar-powered airplane hovering over the area would be a nice solution to that problem.

Until the first thunderstorm pops up and knocks it down like the Helios.

Theres an old saying in flying:
A thunderstorm is natures way of saying up yours.

Re:Impliment?

[Aardpig]

Is that some weird Brit misspelling, like flavour or neighbour?

Potatoe? Is our children learning?

Dammit....

[SensitiveMale]

I hope this doesn't carry over to the US.

I just purchased a 5.8 GHz phone because my 2.4 GHz phone was interfering with wireless network.

I don't want to have to drop back to a 900 MHz phone because of networking.

giant dish?

[cloudmaster]

Hooray! I knew that if I kept that 8 foot C-band dish up in the backyard, it'd someday come back into style! All those neighbors who've laughed at my giant dish will again be envious, just like in the 80's...

1776: A War about Language

[Pii]

You Sir, are incorrect. A lot of people like to say that America's War for Independence was about self-governance, but for the most part, that's a simple myth.

The reality of the matter is that the war was about spelling. Americans, busily trying to develop their own resources and create a thriving local economy had a great deal of real work to do, and couldn't be bothered with adding all manner of additional letters to easily recognized words, like labor (labour), flavor (flavour), or color (colour), like their British counterparts.

The people of Britain had been around for quite a while, you see, having had hundreds of years to build their cities. Since most of the heavy lifting had already been done, when they say down to write a letter or novel, they had plenty of time to put extra vowels in their words.

The Colonists, on the other hand, they had other important things to do. Subsequently, they dropped the redundant vowels.

This angered the crown to no end, and the King, having had a formal education, and having pretty much all the free time in the world to waste on extra vowels, sent his fleet.

The rest, as they say, is history (Or, histoury, to my British friends).

Because the Colonists prevailed, the question of proper spelling was finally answered, and American English is correct. Because we aren't as petty as King George, there's no need for additional bloodshed or violence, and we allow our English bretheren to continue their ridiculous spelling practices as a historical courtesy.

Now all of you know the *real* story.