Received this from a list, asking support for setting aside a
broadcast spectrum for public use for phone calls/messages. Sounds like a
great idea to me.
Marianne Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Have the FCC declare a tiny portion of what was once *understood* to be the
public's broadcast spectrum to be - in fact - PUBLIC SPECTRUM (a range of
frequencies available for free public use). The formal petition has
ALREADY BEEN FILED with the FCC (note:supported by Apple!). The rule-
making PROCESS HAS ALREADY BEGUN; public comments have already been
solicited.
Open that public spectrum to FREE use by EVERYONE, subject to NO
restrictions at all except (1) broadcast power that will limit range to,
typically, about 15 to 30 miles, and (2) require use of a given frequency
for only a very brief time - seconds or even milliseconds (assumes use of
well-developed, nonproprietary "spread spectrum" techniques, where an
ongoing communication takes place on one frequency for tiny time, then
moves to another frequency, then another and so on; the most efficient use
and sharing of broadcast spectrum that is possible!).
24-megabits per second - that's 3 megabytes per second!
NO phone bills!
NO corporate owners!
NO wires - just a teeny weeny antenna. At most.
NO fees - just a one-time purchase of cheap home, office, car or beltloop
transcievers, and whatever you wish to plug into them ... phones, data
modems, video cameras, temperature monitors, etc.
NO operator licensing - just type-licensed transceivers, exactly the same
as police, cabbie and CB-band radios.
NO eaves-droppers - since the spreading algorithms can be infinitely and
dynamically varied (and communications can be further scrambled, to boot).
NO censorship needed - since content is *inherently* "scrambled".
METROPOLITAN area range (far beyond a single cell-phone site).
REAL content competition - not the fake "competition" of
government-created, government-licensed, government-protected conduit and
content corporate cartels.
Pollution-free, environmentally-sound, wire-free regional electronic public
parks.
WRITE AND FAX *NOW* - to the FCC *and* to your Congress-critters and the
Clinton White House that has been so busy selling the public's spectrum to
the few who can afford it. Or ... obediently wait and watch the cartels
raise our rates.
See the July 3rd issue of Interactive
Age Magazine :
COPYRIGHT CMP PUBLICATIONS JULY 1995.
By Bill Frezza [via [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dewayne Hendricks)]
The visionaries at Apple Computer Inc. are at it again, pushing the
envelope of technology, regulatory policy and business development.
..core mobile computing, Apple's recent petition to the FCC for an
unlicensed"NII band" is this summer's best read. Check it out at
http://www.apple.com/documents/fcc.html
[Better still, use http://www.warpspeed.com/ , explained below. --=
jim]
[=3D=3D=3DIMPORTANT ACTION ITEM!=3D=3D=3D]
Drop a letter or postcard referencing petition RM-8653 to:
Office of the Secretary
Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
Washington DC 20554
or send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and offer your help.
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