"Don't want this to sound like anti-Linux flamebait, but there is something to be said for Microsoft's ability to force a single, simply-named and -numbered standard library."
Microsoft seems to force a lot of single "standards" upon its users...
Nothing can really operate "illegally" in this band (well unless it exceeds legal transmission-power limits or whatever). The whole point is that unlicensed [as in, pretty much any] devices can utilize the 2.4ghz band (which is commonly referred to as the "industrial, scientific and medical" band).
So the whole point is that cordless phones *are* indeed allowed to use the frequency range, and accordingly, interfere with other wireless devices like BlueTooth or 802.11x wireless network connections and so on.
Fortunately it looks like this newly 'opened' frequency range is reserved for "unlicensed wireless Internet operations", which means, no cordless phones or other non WiFi-internet operations.
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"Don't want this to sound like anti-Linux flamebait, but there is something to be said for Microsoft's ability to force a single, simply-named and -numbered standard library." Microsoft seems to force a lot of single "standards" upon its users...
Nothing can really operate "illegally" in this band (well unless it exceeds legal transmission-power limits or whatever). The whole point is that unlicensed [as in, pretty much any] devices can utilize the 2.4ghz band (which is commonly referred to as the "industrial, scientific and medical" band).
So the whole point is that cordless phones *are* indeed allowed to use the frequency range, and accordingly, interfere with other wireless devices like BlueTooth or 802.11x wireless network connections and so on.
Fortunately it looks like this newly 'opened' frequency range is reserved for "unlicensed wireless Internet operations", which means, no cordless phones or other non WiFi-internet operations.