I looked it up, less then 2000 people work for the FCC. The number has been going down for a while.
Most seem to deal with legal issues... http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d1079.pdf Brett ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brett Gazdzinski" <[email protected]> To: "Discussion of AM Radio in the Amateur Service" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, March 19, 2010 8:42 PM Subject: Re: [AMRadio] Broadcast stuff >I think it will go away faster then most people think. > The 4G and above stuff is going to replace fios, cable, and dsl. > My company has stopped the fios builds and will likely switch to wireless. > You can get something like 340Mbps over wireless now. > That is a lot of bandwidth, with almost no infrastructure, no cables on > poles, no fiber, no high power broadcasting. > Almost every station on the air streams the programs on the web, and most > younger people listen/watch that way. > I think the FCC is a VERY small department of the government, and likely > does not care about anything as long as nothing interferes with mil > traffic > or cell phone stuff. > > We are just seeing the start of devices that will receive radio and TV > shows, like the iphone and so on.... > > Brett > > > ______________________________________________________________ > Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net > AMRadio mailing list > Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html > List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio > Post: [email protected] > To unsubscribe, send an email to [email protected] with > the word unsubscribe in the message body. > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html ______________________________________________________________ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Post: [email protected] To unsubscribe, send an email to [email protected] with the word unsubscribe in the message body. This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
