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    • 16 Oct 05
    • 7:14 pm

    I've been having orders-of-magnitude issues lately: I meant to say $60 billion, not $600 billion, in reference to the worth of the spectrum for digital television. Speaking of, McCain/Lieberman's SAVE LIVES Act pushes the FCC to complete the transition to digital TV and recover the analog spectrum for public safety use. A step in the right direction. I'm guessing GhostRabbit means "ultrawideband" (or UWB), "spread spectrum" being a technique used for many years (patented by Hedy Lamarr, no kidding!). UWB is indeed a very promising technology that needs FCC approval. The iron's hot right now for rethinking spectrum allocation, hopefully UWB …

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