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Re: Broadband truth in advertising, redux
From: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2010 17:43:21 -0500
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From: Tony Lauck <tlauck () madriver com> Date: February 9, 2010 3:51:13 PM EST To: dave () farber net Subject: Re: [IP] Re: Broadband truth in advertising, redux
The scarcity of the resources Bruce mentions are an artifact of the particular multiple access technologies used, and given that the standards were set by entities with the "scarcity" model of telecommunications, it is not surprising that these may represent practical limitations in existing systems. They are not, however, fundamental resource and could be erased by smarter technology, were this permissible given the lobbying, political and legal environment.Tony Lauck https:www.aglauck.com David Farber wrote:Begin forwarded message: From: Karl Auerbach <karl () cavebear com> Date: February 8, 2010 6:14:43 PM EST To: Brett Glass <brett () lariat net> Cc: dave () farber net Subject: Re: [IP] Re: Broadband truth in advertising, redux Reply-To: karl () cavebear com On 02/08/2010 02:14 PM, Brett Glass wrote:P.S. -- Oh, and Karl, lest I forget to mention it, any continuousconnection between a cell site and a client incurs significant overhead.The cell has to reserve codes (CDMA), time slots (TDMA), or channels(OFDM) for any client with which it has established a conversation, andcan't continuously do this for every cell phone in the vicinity.
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