IP: Studies Find Scant Availability of Spectrum for Wireless Internet NYT

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

Studies Find Scant Availability of Spectrum for Wireless Internet

By STEPHEN LABATON

<snip>

The studies by the Federal Communications Commission, the Commerce 
Department and the Pentagon, drew no policy conclusions as to which license 
holders should be forced to move or who should bear the high costs of such 
relocation. But they describe billions of dollars in potential costs and 
disruptions associated with those moves on top of significant technical 
hardships for the current owners of licenses and national security problems 
for the military.

The F.C.C. report, for instance, concluded that there was "no readily 
identifiable alternate frequency band that could accommodate a substantial 
relocation" of the users of the bands it had studied. The Pentagon, 
meanwhile, concluded that it would be unable to vacate the frequencies it 
has held "until well beyond the time lines established" by the Clinton 
directive, and that policy makers should look toward commercial users to 
find new sources of spectrum.

<snip> http://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/31/technology/31SPEC.html



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