[HCRA] RE: [VWS] Amateur Radio In The News

[Kevin F. Berrien]

Whats the rational, the US is behind in bandwidth access.

It appears there is a lot of confusion regarding the US ranking in the 
world in terms of broadband access.  It seems the FCC counts a zip code 
with 1 broadband user as "connected" (thus 94.3% communities have 
access, 80% have a choice from 2 companies).  But given the map at the 
link below, hopefully the power companies will decide the market is 
already saturated.

http://news.com.com/U.S.%20broadband%20A-OK/2010-1071_3-5517695.html


Daniel Sullivan wrote:

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> Thanks for the article I passed it on the NEwington and my other club 
> mailing list in NE.
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> Thoughts:
>
> 1) I did not know radio waves traveled INSIDE wire at 800 MHz and 
> 10GHz. In fact the resistance from the wire would be enough to 
> completely eliminate any hope of propagating a signal more than a few 
> feet, unless high power was used. Then they would interfere with our 
> 10 GHz operations and Public Safety on 800 MHz.
>
> 1a) Then they decide to use similar technology to 802.11b. Why don't 
> they run fiber to 802.11b sites to begin with?
>
> 2) I love how the BBC will make their BPL home unit a propagation 
> detector. I wonder what action it would take with a 100w or 1.5kw 
> signal nearby. (Probably freak out and blow up.)
>
> 3) 5-10 Megabits is nothing, wait til its under load and everyone is 
> doing internet radio!
>
> Dan S.
> KO1D
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> ----Original Message Follows----
> From: "Pete Norloff" <pnorloff05 at toward.com>
> Reply-To: VWS at mail.viennawireless.org
> To: <vws at viennawireless.org>
> Subject: [VWS] Amateur Radio In The News
> Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 15:58:51 -0500
>
> Today Reuters reported briefly on a New Scientist article regarding ham
> radio and BPL here:
>
>
> http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=technologyNews&storyID=7308173 
>
> &src=rss/technologyNews
>
> (The above link above may wrap around)
>
> And here's a link to the original New Scientist article:
>
>    http://www.newscientist.com/channel/info-tech/mg18524827.000
>
> 73,
> Pete
>
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