On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 12:18 PM, tjpa <[email protected]> wrote: > I wonder if this isn't just a scheme by cell providers to force stations to > rent space on their towers.
I do not think that cell providers can "force" placement of their antennas on anyone or anywhere...at least not yet. The FCC has already said that they would consider such a TV broadcasting scheme in order to provide for more frequencies to be be effectively used by the cell industry. However, I do not think that the FCC intended for TV broadcasters to have to make their initial changeover to digital as it transpired, and then to have to set up an entirely different scheme shortly thereafter just to satisfy cell providers. The FCC pretty clearly wanted it to be one way or the other from the outset, and all parties agreed to the plan that was adopted, including those who got that old TV spectrum, which includes cell providers. But, cell companies now want to provide so many additional services that they are crying for more frequencies. They are not really responding to "demands" on the part of the public, but rather to their own greedy desires to sell more services that they are conjuring up as they claw each other to pieces in their quests for market domination. Folks who simply want to be able to continue to enjoy free TV should not be the ones to have to bear the consequences, not should it be on the backs of the broadcast TV industry. Steve ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
