On 26/02/20 03:10, james wrote: > I'm just not convinced that our USA government continuing to "sell > bandwidth rights", is constitutional?
Problem is, if bandwidth is "opened to all" the reality in the past would have been a free-for-all leading to a major tragedy of the commons. Much like we're seeing in space and low-earth orbit now. If we're not *very* careful, soon we will not be able to launch low-earth and geo-synchronous satellites, because there'll be a massive debris belt that will destroy satellites within a few years. The new high-frequency bandwidths I'm not too worried about - like low-earth orbit stuff there will decay into the atmosphere and self-cleanse over 30-40 years - high frequencies don't travel far - but where there is the likelihood of interference some sort of regulation is necessary. Do you really want your home network to collapse in a heap every time your neighbour jacks up his power because your network is causing his home network to collapse in a heap? (That's why my home network is mostly cat-5 or ethernet-over-power :-) Cheers, Wol
