Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!samsung!rex!ukma!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!ncoast!allbery From: allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: APPLE & FCC PETITION (PRESS RELEASE) Message-ID: <1991Jan31.025046.22609@NCoast.ORG> Date: 31 Jan 91 02:50:46 GMT References: Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR) Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.misc Organization: North Coast Public Access Un*x (ncoast) Lines: 24 As quoted from by yee@osf.org (Michael K. Yee): +--------------- | In article bannon@andromeda.rutgers.edu (Ron Bannon) writes: | |> Apple Petitions FCC for Use of Radio Waves | |> For Data Transmission by All Computer Makers | |> | |>Specifically, Apple petitioned the FCC to allow computer communications | |>exclusively on 40 MHz of the radio frequency bandwidth between 1850-1990 | |>MHz to transmit data at high speeds (for example, 10 megabits per second) | |>over short distances (up to about 150 feet). | | Isn't there already a frequency range allocated for wireless | ethernet? I think it's a bit slower than what Apple is proposing, | but there already something in place right? +--------------- Quite a bit, actually.... ++Brandon -- Me: Brandon S. Allbery VHF/UHF: KB8JRR on 220, 2m, 440 Internet: allbery@NCoast.ORG Packet: KB8JRR @ WA8BXN America OnLine: KB8JRR AMPR: KB8JRR.AmPR.ORG [44.70.4.88] uunet!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!ncoast!allbery Delphi: ALLBERY