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FCC Chairman Warns of Wireless Spectrum Gap

Posted by timothy on from the congress-from-whom-all-blessings-flow dept.

locallyunscene writes "'We are fast entering a world where mass-market mobile devices consume thousands of megabytes each month,' FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski warned at CTIA Wireless yesterday. 'So we must ask: what happens when every mobile user has an iPhone, a Palm Pre, a BlackBerry Tour, or whatever the next device is? What happens when we quadruple the number of subscribers with mobile broadband on their laptops or netbooks?'"

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  1. Questions that don't really beg answers... by TiggertheMad · · Score: -1, Troll

    What happens when we quadruple the number of subscribers with mobile broadband on their laptops or netbooks?'

    You sell the service providers more spectrum, you dumbass...

    how much are they paying this guy for be the head of the FCC, because it's too much.

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  2. Re:It's 1996 again? by ag0ny · · Score: 0, Troll

    ... because it's not practical to carry-around 100 foot long transmitting antennas with your phone.

    Why not?

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  3. Re:It's 1996 again? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    There's a easy solution already in reach: stop innoculating people, stop feeding the third world, and let the population come down naturally. All the biggest problems we face can be solved by reducing our numbers. The best part is how cheap it is - it requires less work than we're already doing.