Google's Larry Page: Wireless mics can do it, why can't we?
Google's white-space or cloud initiative could be one of the most productive stimulants to the economy since fertilizer. Free unused spectrum would break the stranglehold telcos exert on the TCP/IP of the Internet. Lack of local band width has blocked information technology from the start and that bottleneck became critical in the late 90s as computer technology advanced to include the Internet as part of the computer.
Rapid growth in productivity and the economy, based on free and exploitable information, came to a halt with what some call the bubble, but what I call the collusion of old-line phone companies to engineer a scarcity of band width for their own monopolistic greed. This collusion includes the FCC profiting obscenely from their bandwidth auctions, thus driving prices to ridiculously high levels. The auctioning of empty space amounts to a hidden tax -- call it a Republican style tax; actually both parties are guilty.
The water we drink, the air we breath, space, information and the open seas should be free. Space for the transmission of information was considered property 100 years ago because the early radio attempts were so staticy that they interfered with one another; that is no longer the case. Spread spectrum, CDMA, smart radio, and these white-space or cloud strategies can go undetected beneath the background floor of static that the FCC ignores. Any political support we can give Larry Page in his quest to Washington has got to be good for us all.
The old telcos might better see to their telephone communications, which have degraded by leaps and bounds and leave the Internet, TCP/IP to the information technology people. Better leave the fiber optics to the technology people too. The only motive the phone companies have for FO is to limit capacity for the highest price or keep it dark.
Google's white-space or cloud initiative could be one of the most productive stimulants to the economy since fertilizer. Free unused spectrum would break the stranglehold telcos exert on the TCP/IP of the Internet. Lack of local band width has blocked information technology from the start and that bottleneck became critical in the late 90s as computer technology advanced to include the Internet as part of the computer.
Rapid growth in productivity and the economy, based on free and exploitable information, came to a halt with what some call the bubble, but what I call the collusion of old-line phone companies to engineer a scarcity of band width for their own monopolistic greed. This collusion includes the FCC profiting obscenely from their bandwidth auctions, thus driving prices to ridiculously high levels. The auctioning of empty space amounts to a hidden tax -- call it a Republican style tax; actually both parties are guilty.
The water we drink, the air we breath, space, information and the open seas should be free. Space for the transmission of information was considered property 100 years ago because the early radio attempts were so staticy that they interfered with one another; that is no longer the case. Spread spectrum, CDMA, smart radio, and these white-space or cloud strategies can go undetected beneath the background floor of static that the FCC ignores. Any political support we can give Larry Page in his quest to Washington has got to be good for us all.
The old telcos might better see to their telephone communications, which have degraded by leaps and bounds and leave the Internet, TCP/IP to the information technology people. Better leave the fiber optics to the technology people too. The only motive the phone companies have for FO is to limit capacity for the highest price or keep it dark.
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