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From: jf@ap.co.umist.ac.uk (John Forrest)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: Apple's FCC request
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Date: 11 Apr 91 13:08:50 GMT
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In article <14130@ccncsu.ColoState.EDU>, klingspo@mozart.cs.colostate.edu (Steve Klingsporn) writes:
|> 
|> I ENCOURAGE ALL OF YOU TO TAKE ACTION ON THIS, FOR IT IS DEFINITELY
|> QUITE IMPORTANT TO THE COMPUTING INDUSTRY AS A WHOLE.
|> 
|> Act now!

This might be of interest to the computer industry in the States, but does not
really apply to the rest of the world. That is, frequency allocations are a
national thing, although agreed frequencies must be used for radio, and I
suppose similar things. Outside the states it will purely depend on particular
countries. I've no idea of the possibilities in the UK/EC. It might be that
some agreed frequencies could be achieved, but the chance of the US standard
being acceptable is about 1 over infinity.

John Forrest
Dept of Computation
UMIST