[LINK] WhiteFi or Super WiFi

[Tom Koltai]

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> From: link-bounces at mailman.anu.edu.au 
> [mailto:link-bounces at mailman.anu.edu.au] On Behalf Of 
> stephen at melbpc.org.au
> Sent: Tuesday, 28 June 2011 8:58 PM
> To: link at anu.edu.au
> Subject: [LINK] WhiteFi or Super WiFi
> 
> 
> Microsoft, others to test 'super Wi-Fi' technology in U.K. 
> 
> 
> Microsoft is part of a new consortium that will test the use of open 
> television broadcast frequencies for wide-reaching wireless Internet 
> service, a technology known to some as "super Wi-Fi." 
> 
> The Cambridge TV White Spaces Consortium - also including the 
> BBC, Nokia, 
> Samsung and other organizations - in a news release said it 
> will launch a 
> trial to "validate that TV white spaces can be used without 
> any impact on 
> traditional broadcast television in the U.K., a concept that 
> has already 
> been successfully explored in the U.S. and other European countries."
> 
> Indeed, in September 2010, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission 
> approved new technical rules for using the open broadcast spectrum 
> between television frequencies, which is known as "white space."
> 
> Microsoft's research arm has been working on "WhiteFi" 
> systems that can 
> broadcast more than 1 kilometer away.
> 
> "As compared to the airwaves we released for unlicensed use in 1985, 
> this 'white spaces' spectrum is far more robust - traveling longer 
> distances and through walls, making the potential for this unlicensed 
> spectrum much greater," FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski said in 
> September. 
> 
> "We know what the first major application will be: super 
> Wi-Fi. Super Wi- Fi is what it sounds like: Wi-Fi, but with 
> longer range, faster speeds, 
> and more reliable connections. We can also expect, as we've 
> seen now with 
> Wi-Fi, enhanced performance from the mobile devices using licensed 
> spectrum that we've come to rely on so heavily."
> 
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Sadly Stephen, Australians may never get to find out...

What Telstra doesn't buy to stilt competition is now purchased by the
NBN. Competition is not a word that will be able to be used in Australia
in the near future.

Although I'm amazed at the hyped concept of "Super WiFi." Wireless
propogation is a science that has been studied and reported on
regularly. [http://www.itu.int/rec/R-REC-P]

E.G.: If we lower the frequency down another 700 mhz, (around 3 Hz to 3
MHz), the signal can even go 11 km's through water to the bottom of the
Mariana Trench.
That must be "Extra Long Fi" or ELF for short.. ;-)
In Australia, that spectrum is unallocated... (We dont have lots of
nuclear submarines). Of coure the down side is the wavelength increases
and instead of centimetre measurable antenas we suddenly have antenna
measured by the square km or hectare.

Mind you, in Australia, there is no way that whitespace will be "given"
to the people as ISM.

It will be mistakenly sold to the carriers as an extention of their
already unworkable legacy  UMTS/Edge/3G/Morphing evolving 4G Cellphone
"all circuits are busy, please try your call later" white elephant.

Sadly, this is another example of how some countries are disenfranchised
by Politicians attempting to get re-elected by balancing the budget this
year and ignoring the requirements of the next generations.

The carriers that don't want to use it will still buy it to stop
competition.
E.g. Telstra when they purchased the iBurst spectrum.

So it doesn't matter that the FCC Microsoft and others find this a
superior frequency for it's penetration, distance, and anti moisture
propagation capabilities, our Civil Servants have made the
Determination... The Spectrum SHALL be sold...
REF: http://mailman.anu.edu.au/pipermail/link/2011-May/093829.html

Sad Really. For a lucky country, as far as our communications
infrastructure is concerned, we seem to be moving from one
monopoly/oligarchy to another.

TomK.