On Fri, 02 Mar 2007 01:14:25 -0600, John Scrivner wrote > Brilliant - standards building as a means of disabling US access to > technology innovation. Wow. I certainly hope you have vision enough > to see and thwart this type of activity in the future. I have heard > you have the intellectual knowledge to do so. Please let us know > when to cry foul in the future. Scriv
I'm not sure Rich is right or wrong about the how or why, that u-pcs has flopped here. In fact, as much as I read, I could find little to indicate that industry made much of any input into the standards. They are quite general with only certain minimums and maximums built into them. I believe that 802.11(anything) may actually qualify. Northern Telecom (nortel) was the first to build a u-pcs system, but it was a business class phone system - handsets, pbx, all wireless, designed for businesses. Today I can find no nortel products built for the u-pcs spectrum. As for regulations including small or obscure incompatibilities to prevent the use of one mass produced device in another area, it happens all the time. Witness the FCC's "unique connector" rule. I'd like to think the FCC has stoppped trying to predict or create thier own vision of technological future, and just respond to the market, instead, but I don't really know if that's true or not. -------------------------------------------- Mark Koskenmaki <> Neofast, Inc Broadband for the Walla Walla Valley and Blue Mountains 541-969-8200 -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
