Date: Sun, 14 Jul 1996 10:45:47 -0700 (PDT) From: Michael Dillon <michael@junction.net> To: iap@vma.cc.nd.edu Cc: linuxisp@lightning.com, freebsd-isp@freebsd.org, os2-isp@dental.stat.com Subject: Our NSF Project Formal FCC Comments (fwd) Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.93.960714104506.15524K-100000@sidhe.memra.com>
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---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sun, 14 Jul 1996 09:38:52 -0600 (MDT) From: Dave Hughes <dave@oldcolo.com> Reply-To: inet-access@earth.com To: inet-access@earth.com Subject: Our NSF Project Formal FCC Comments Resent-Date: Sun, 14 Jul 1996 09:48:19 -0600 (MDT) Resent-From: inet-access@earth.com The NSF Wireless Field Test Project has formally commented on the FCC's Notice of Proposed Rule Making on the Apple (community networking) and WINForum (low power, no licence, wide band) Petitions for new allocation of spectrum. You can read them under the 'Regulatory' sub web page off the http://wireless.oldcolo.com web site. The top two items. It will suprise some that we oppose the Apple proposal - for technical inadequacy and probable interference with existing abilities, but still hold that there should be effective rules for long range, no licence radios. And in commenting (maybe the only ones in the US to do so) on the obligatory requirement for the FCC to analyze the impact of its proposed actions on 'Small Entities' we find the FCC analyses to be superficial and wholly inadequate. They utterly fail to acknowledge that millions of very small entitites (1 person businesses, operations, professionals, small home, home office, educators) using web site and other Internet capabiliites need the lowest cost, high bandwidth, access to the closest ISP - which long range spread spectrum no-licence radios can, and should, offer if the mandate of the 1996 Telecom Act to insure that 'advanced telecommunications services' be made available to all citizens at affordable costs. The deadline for either written formal comments, or email comments 96-102@fcc.gov on this watershed item is Monday, 15 July. After which all submissions will be available for reading, and for 30 days 'Reply' comments will be accepted. This item is watershed, not because of the immediate actions - which will be of marginal impact - but because how the FCC handles the issue of 'long range, high bandwidth, no-licence, shared-spectrum' radios may set the future course. Either everything is going to be privatized with companies bidding for exclusive spectrum use, or we are going to be able to use powerful radios which do not interfere with anything, and require no-licence, no comm-cost. And if anyone thinks that 'non-interfering' radios are a pipe dream I refer you to the latest MIT Doctorate by Timothy Shepard who demonstrates that 'billions' of radios can now operate in the same electromagnetic space. There IS no 'spectrum scarcity' with the right FCC rules and radios made to high standards of process gain. Dave Hughes P.S. I am not longer on the inet-list, so if you want to reply to me, go dave@oldcolo.com ============================== ISP Mailing List ============================== Email ``unsubscribe'' to inet-access-request@earth.com to be removed. Because this is a restricted list -- DO NOT CROSS POST TO OTHER LISTS.
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