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From: urjlew@uncecs.edu (Rostyk Lewyckyj)
Newsgroups: csu.cs.200,comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Important Petition/Technology
Summary: Whose spectrum does Apple want to grab?
Message-ID: <1991Apr11.034720.26091@uncecs.edu>
Date: 11 Apr 91 03:47:20 GMT
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On the surface this idea sounds very attractive.
However since the radio spectrum is a very scarce resource,
so scarce that many allocations are decided by a world wide
conference held every 8-10 years, and are signed by governments
as international treaties, the question arises.
Whose radio spectrum allocation is Apple proposing to take away
for this commercial product that it wants to sell?
Will it be the CB radio bands?
Will it be marine bands?
Will it be a piece of some current commercial band allocation?
Perhaps some frequencies now allocated to cellular telephones?
Perhaps some part of the TV radio spectrum? How about taking 2
or 3 UHF channels, which at 6MHZ apiece allows for 12-18MHZ.
This 18 MHZ could be divided into many many, (3600) 5KHZ channels.
And after all who would miss 3 TV channels.
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