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Re: Free, high-speed regional telecomm! (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (PACS-L Moderator)
Wed Aug 14 07:03:54 1996
Date: Tue, 13 Aug 1996 17:27:26 -0500 (CDT)
From: PACS-L Moderator <libpacs@UH.EDU>
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----------------------------Original message----------------------------
>From: easterj@mis.finchcms.edu (Jeff Easter)
>Subject: Re: Free, high-speed regional telecomm! (fwd)
>
>This series of messages was posted about a year ago. Does anybody know the
>latest news on this.
>
>
>>At last, a stunning proposal (by Apple!) for a genuine, free public level
>>for the NII: a dedicated lane for high speed public telecommunications
>>has been proposed, for shared use of the broadcast spectrum using "spread
>>spectrum" techniques,.
>
>>---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>Date: Tue, 4 Jul 1995 18:42:45 -0700
>>From: Jim Warren <jwarren@well.com>
>>To: GovAccess@well.com, FOI-L <foi-l@listserv.syr.edu>
>>Subject: GovAccess.154-CRUCIAL!!!: Free, high-speed regional telecomm!
>>
>>This is one of the most important public policy items I have ever posted!
>>
>>
>>FREE voice and data communications for residential, educational, business,
>>community, city, county, rural *and* mobile voice and data-communications.
>>
>>ALL OF US can have FREE metropolitan-area voice, data and compressed-video
>>communications - point-to-point, and for that matter, point-to-multipoint
>>(i.e., everyone becomes a broadcaster, but only to those whom they permit
>>to receive!).
>>
>>
>>Have the FCC declare a tiny portion of what was once *understood* to be the
>>public's broadcast spectrum to be - in fact - PUBLIC SPECTRUM (a range of
>>frequencies available for free public use). The formal petition has
>>ALREADY BEEN FILED with the FCC. The rule-making PROCESS HAS ALREADY
>>BEGUN; public comments have already been solicited.
>>
>>
>>What they're asking for is simple enough: 300 megahertz of prime real
>>estate up at 5 gigahertz, enough to accommodate high density
>>24-megabit-per-second connections in a fluid mix of local and wide area
>>networking. This amounts to about $40 billion worth of spectrum, if you go
>>by the size of the checks the phone companies wrote for Personal
>>Communications Services (PCS) frequencies. And, oh yeah, they don't want it
>>for themselves. They want it made available free to all comers, subject
>>only to interference--reducing technical standards. No auctions, no license
>>fees, no regulations on what it's used for, and no airtime charges.
>>
>>The petition proposes spectrum sharing by fixed and mobile users on a
>>completely ad-hoc basis. This "spectrum etiquette" is a brilliant blend of
>>good science and free market ingenuity. Spectrum etiquette imposes no
>>centralized control and assumes no traffic prioritization.
>>
>
> IMPORTANT ACTION ITEM!
>>
>> Drop a letter or postcard referencing petition RM-8653 to:
>> Office of the Secretary
>> Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
>> Washington DC 20554
>>
>> or send e-mail to jlovette@apple.com and offer your help.
>>
>etc. etc.
>
>
>
