I still can't understand how this ever got to be such a big deal, or why it
continues to be. Even if the military weren't involved, the FCC has always
been the 500-pound gorilla cracking down on everybody from drunken ham
operators to national networks and 2-second wardrobe malfunctions. Why
That is precisely why the questions are important. Somehow, Falcone was
able to morph a low-impact satellite service into this monster with 40,000
powerful L-Band transmitters blanketing the country.
And he could not have done it without powerful help. So who and how
matters, a lot.
As I said,
Brian wrote:
the FCC has always been the 500-pound gorilla cracking down on
everybody from drunken ham operators to national networks and
2-second wardrobe malfunctions. Why don't the FCC and the Navy
just get together and say, screw you, LightSquared
As I have said here several times,
In my opinion, the only real solution is a fiber optic build out.
The bandwidth is fantastic and the technology appears to be
quite sound. Unlike BPL or wireless networks, Fiber optic internet
does not pollute the RF spectrum. Save the RF spectrum for the
odd domicile that is off the electric
