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From: domo@tsa.co.uk (Dominic Dunlop)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: APPLE & FCC PETITION (PRESS RELEASE)
Message-ID: <1991Jan31.102256.16498@tsa.co.uk>
Date: 31 Jan 91 10:22:56 GMT
References: <Jan.28.22.54.22.1991.7707@galaxy.rutgers.edu>
Reply-To: domo@tsa.co.uk (Dominic Dunlop)
Organization: The Standard Answer Ltd.
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In article <Jan.28.22.54.22.1991.7707@galaxy.rutgers.edu>
bannon@andromeda.rutgers.edu (Ron Bannon) relays some Apple press
flackery:
> 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).

Hmmm.  Playing spot-the-next-shakily-founded-health-scare, I note that
this is pretty close to the frequency used by microwave ovens (2450
MHz).  Boil-in-the-packet wireless networks, anybody?  

(Yes, this is a joke, but I fear we're going to hear more of it.)
-- 
Dominic Dunlop