it's available as part15 spectrum and there is equipment from a few
manufacturers.  BUT the TV broadcasters fought the rules so vigorously that
it isn't very viable for consumer internet needs.  the channel sizes are
6MHz (there might be channel bonding now to get  it to 12MHz but i stopped
paying attention long ago) and the mask on the channels are really tight so
it's difficult to use more than 4MHz, so basically throughput is really
low.  probably only good for IoT stuff nowadays.

oh there's also the goofy height above average terrain HAAT rules to
contend with.  and everything has to talk back to a SaS server to authorize
use.

pretty much a cluster f*ck of rules and regs that makes it unusable for
netflix type of interwebs.

-sean


On Thu, Mar 1, 2018 at 7:34 PM, Steve Jones <[email protected]>
wrote:

> This was supposed to be like putting a monkey in shoes, but then it went
> silent, is it essentially a dead duck or is there still something
> happenning?
>

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