On Tue, 8 Sep 2015, Dave Taht wrote:
On Tue, Sep 8, 2015 at 1:22 AM, Mikael Abrahamsson <[email protected]> wrote:
On Tue, 8 Sep 2015, Dave Taht wrote:
wifi, and the carriers... which bugs me. 5.x ghz is the people's
spectrum, that we should be free to use any way we want... and to make
Please note that the LTE-U debate is separate from the lockdown
debate, which only has a day to run. Can we get more letters into the
FCC for the lockdown problem?
I have already posted as well.
And jeeze, what makes sense - on the "licensed" spectrum - is the
government auctions it off for big bucks one year, and then the public
pays rents on it for all eternity. Far saner to have more openly
available spectrum
Well, yes, we need both unlicensed and licensed spectrum.
One failed concept in america, at least, is the idea of a commons - as
in a tragedy of the commons - elsewhere, for example, "public lands" are
actually "the queen's" lands and people tend to treat them with more
respect.
Yes, in sweden we have something called (translated) "Rights of public
access" to land for instance, I'm allowed to go camping in someone elses
forest as long as it's noncommercial and I leave it as I found it. It's a
constant battle to keep this freedom and I agree we need this for radio as
well. BUT it's not like unlicensed radio today means you can do whatever
you want, there is still quite a lot of regulation around it. So I can
understand if they want to achieve that regulated devices in unlicensed
spectrum actually follows the regulation. The problem is that it's
different across the world, I've heard that in Thailand for instance,
you're only allowed to transmit with a total of 100mW from a device, so if
you turn on both 2.4GHz and 5GHz radios, you need to limit them to 50mW
each (or some combination). How would a completely open device solve this
problem?
So I think a constructive approach would be to try to say how the FCC
concern can be solved or at least mitigated in a FOSS world. Do we have
any ideas?
Because I can understand that regulators whose job it is to make sure
devices follow the rules have a problem with FOSS code that lets people do
whatever they want.
Do we really want for regulators to bring back the vans who might roll
around and impose a fine because you were running OpenWRT and happened to
set the output power too high for whatever local regulation was in place?
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Mikael Abrahamsson email: [email protected]
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