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Old 07-21-2006, 02:34 PM   #29
MaggieL
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Originally Posted by Rock Steady
I just emailed the company asking them if they could avoid the amateur allocation or not.
As far as I know, not while still being in an 802.11 channel. The email you posted is discussing interference with a single downlink channel from the AO-40 satellite. Power companies trying to promote BPL have offered the excuse that they'll "notch out" any frequencies that cause interference. So far I'm not aware of any case in which that's been successful.

The WiFi mesh industry response seems to be along the lines of:
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How should national spectrum policy evolve to promote the use of metro-scale Wi-Fi mesh networks? Tropos Networks and others in the industry are active in educating policy-makers...
I read that as "We're lobbying to get the existing allocations confiscated and turned over to us". The nice thing about asking "How should...?" is that it completely bypassses asking "Should...?".
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