Part-15 Nazis

[Martin]

http://www.wsj.com/articles/cell-carriers-battle-for-wi-fi-airwaves-1440543853

On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 11:21 AM, Mark Whittington <markwhi at gmail.com> wrote:

> Or, you know, maybe it's all of the routers that can have their power
> pushed up beyond the legal limit for ISM and the design limits of that
> particular hardware implementation that then splatter all over the band, or
> operate in non-US allocated channels simply by flashing DDWRT on them.  It
> could be something like that, couldn't it?
>
> Nah, definitely the tin foil one.
>
> Don't get me wrong -- I'm not in favor of locking down these things even
> more than they currently are.  But I also don't think we need to
> manufacture bogey men when there's a reasonable explanation sitting out in
> the open.
>
> There's always going to be some asshole who comes along and ruins things
> for everyone else.  Another example that comes to mind are people selling
> cheap Chinese wideband VHF/UHF FM handheld transcievers on various sites
> around the net advertising them as 'walkie talkies'.  No mention of a
> licensing requirement to use them, no mention of the fines that could come
> from being caught.  Although with the reduced enforcement budget, maybe the
> smart thing to do at this point is open my own webshop and start selling
> them myself.  Why let some other asshole make all the money?
>
> On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 12:26 PM, Mike O'Dell <mo at ccr.org> wrote:
>
>> Call me a conspiracy theorist, but....
>>
>> I think I know what's driving the "no user-servicable parts"
>> assault on Part-15 products.
>>
>> The cellular carriers are intent on taking over the Part-15
>> ISM spectrum at both 2.4 and 5.8 GHz and simply coopting it
>> for their own use. To make that work, though, they have to
>> have an efficient way to herd the riff-raff off of their
>> newly-absconded spectrum. They could just do it, but they
>> would have to suffer interference from all the existing kit.
>> The next New Shiny Feature that gets most of everyone to buy
>> a new Wifi Thing has the usable spectrum throttled back dramatically
>> and pirate upgrades won't work. Presto! At that point, if you want
>> anything approximating "working" cordless service, you gotta buy
>> it from the Sellular Sloths at pennies per packet because there
>> is no recourse.
>>
>> Why would the FCC do this?
>> They've been deeeeeeeply in the carrier's pockets for decades now.
>> Further, the current administration said they were going to
>> convert 500MHz to new wireless service and they will happily count
>> the Wifi bands toward that goal.
>>
>> So there's your Tin Hat Update for the week!
>>
>>    -mo
>>
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