That is the "white space" plan. It is still active. It is an attempt to use wasted TV bandwidth.
TV bandwidth is a waste. It is not a growing business. However, the MS scheme is kind of dumb. The gear would sniff the ether and automatically use the spectrum. They should really just refarm the spectrum. -----Original Message----- From: David VanHorn <d.vanh...@elec-solutions.com> Sender: time-nuts-boun...@febo.com Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2011 12:04:42 To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement<time-nuts@febo.com> Reply-To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement <time-nuts@febo.com> Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Lightsquared goes Global... Years ago, microsoft wanted to take over one of the ham bands, 2m or 440 I forget which, for satellites for internet in poor areas. Swatch wanted to have everyone change to "beats" instead of seconds and minutes. Stupid ideas abound, but they usually fall apart. ________________________________________ From: time-nuts-boun...@febo.com [time-nuts-boun...@febo.com] On Behalf Of Bruce Lane [kyr...@bluefeathertech.com] Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2011 11:45 AM To: time-nuts@febo.com Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Lightsquared goes Global... Seems to me such an issue only increases the chance of Lightsquared's whacked-out ideas getting shot down in flames (as they should be). _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.