Spectrum Use: "There is no lack of spectrum, only a lack of spectral efficiency" & The Cell Phone: Marty Cooper's Big Idea

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: the terminal of geoff goodfellow <geoff () iconia com>
Date: June 14, 2010 12:24:43 AM EDT
To: dfarber () cs cmu edu
Subject: Spectrum Use: "There is no lack of spectrum, only a lack of spectral efficiency" & The Cell Phone: Marty 
Cooper's Big Idea
Reply-To: geoff () iconia com

dave,

for ip if you wish -- i'm a little late in sending this out, as the 60
minutes take was aired 5/23, but i think its still very timely.


Hear the story of the invention of the cell phone from the man whose
team came up with it at Motorola. The inventor, Martin Cooper, is
still at it, improving the gadget he came up with 37 years ago. Morley
Safer of 60 minutes reports:

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=6512514n&tag=contentMain;contentBody

as an aside, my favorite (and spot-on, imho!) quote (or "Philosophical
belief" as it is referred to) of Marty (who i personally know as well
as his wife Arlene Harris, the founder of http://www.jitterbug.com/
and http://www.greatcall.com/ ) is:

There is no lack of spectrum, only a lack of spectral efficiency.

some writings of Marty on this "Philosophical belief":

The Myth of Spectrum Scarcity:
Why Shuffling Existing Spectrum Among Users Will Not
Solve America’s Wireless Broadband Challenge

A Martin Cooper Position Paper [6 pages]

http://www.dynallc.com/pdfs/themythofspectrumscarcity.pdf
from http://www.dynallc.com/#/Martin_Cooper_Publications/

also worthy of a look see/read are the various white papers, et al
over at Marty's company, http://www.arraycomm.com/ -- the world leader
in multi-antenna signal processing (MAS). Their A-MAS™ software is
running in more than 300,000 base stations today, in 17 countries,
with client device solutions on the way. They improve wireless
subscriber experiences and radio network economics through gains in
coverage, client data rates, and capacity — in WiMAX, GSM, PHS, and
HC-SDMA systems. ...

Martin Cooper:
Cell Phone 'Father' Squeezes Spectrum
By Bruce Christian
http://www.phoneplusmag.com/articles/111feat1.html

and

There is no scarcity of spectrum today—there never has been a shortage
of radio frequency spectrum—and there never need be.

Personal communications and spectrum policy for
the 21st century
Martin Cooper
Presented at the George Mason University
Wednesday, February 21, 2007

http://www.iep.gmu.edu/documents/MartinCooper.pdf

//geoff




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