FCC opens up wireless 'white spaces;' Assessing winners, losers and wild-cards

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Co-opting

If the new frequencies are open to any company and if some companies are threatened by competition using the new frequencies, then why shouldn't the threatened companies jam the new frequencies?

That seems one of the points of this quoted quote:

The reason is that there is no clear business model for this spectrum to create additional competition in the broadband market. It?s even possible that existing broadband providers (Comcast, Verizon, AT&T, Time Warner Cable) could decide to follow Cablevision?s lead and co-opt these ?white spaces? frequencies to provide a new mobile broadband option throughout their footprints.

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The usefulness of these frequencies in depriving cable/telco of revenue is probably geographically limited. Why shouldn't they occupy the frequencies continuously and use them sporadically where appropriate?

And even that may not be necessary if no competitor with resources can see a way to make money.

So this may change nothing.

Posted by: Anton Philidor   Posted on: 11/05/08 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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