How to waste perfectly good mobile radio spectrum
I was wrong about Claudville’s White Spaces implementation
I erred on criticizing Spectrum Bridge and the city of Claudville for wasting White Space mobile spectrum on a backhaul network because it turns out that they were using 200 MHz White Space spectrum for a last-mile broadband network. Spectrum Bridge has a temporary “experimental” license to use this spectrum but once White Spaces becomes unlicensed, it could cause problems for the broadband network.
White space backhauls – A penny wise and a pound foolish
When government gives away super valuable 700 MHz mobile spectrum, it gets wasted on wireless backhaul which could have used 5 GHz. While 700 MHz might save a little money on backhaul costs, it saves a lot more money on access and mobile networks. Commercial operators that paid billions of dollars for 700 MHz spectrum would never waste valuable spectrum like this.
When Google spokesperson Dan Martin called White Spaces the “Wi-Fi on steroids”, he had the right analogy but drew the wrong conclusion that this was somehow a good thing. Unlicensed Wi-Fi on 700 MHz would be more like wireless on “roid rage” where unlicensed 700 MHz radios would smash everything in a 50 meter radius resulting in a tragedy of the commons.
It is so rare to see a person admit when the person is wrong that it is truly notable when one finds George Ou doing this. This is not only useful so that I’m better informed about technology. It is even more useful personally and psychologically. I and others are always wrong at times, but when no one around me/us ever can admit this, it essentially becomes a rule of social communication. Then it’s too easy for me and others to claim that I’m/we’re right no matter what.
Thanks for the psychological boost away from silly and harmful fantasy and toward dealing with technological and interpersonal reality.
By the way, I’d like to see more of your ideas, as in the past when ZD made that possible.
Thanks Duane, I at least tried to add some of the most detailed info on White Spaces. Very few people know these details and I ended up learning a lot about it during the debate.
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