We can poo poo these reports as they do have an element of "the sky is falling" and the facts are usually badly represented.
Although it may have some merit, very likely the proliferation of 2.4 and 5.8GHz part 15 devices like cordless phones, wireless video, etc. will bring up the noise floor. About a couple of years ago, I bought an X10 2.4GHz wireless video camera that did a very nice job of wiping out my wireless LAN. Another time I had to coordinate with my neighbor on their cordless phone. I expect that using the "shared" spectrum as we are doing and without any coordination this band will start to become what was predicted some years ago as a "garbage band". I would love to see a new chunk of spectrum that would be set aside for only high speed data that has some level of automagic coordination built into the protocol. Tim -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
