Actually, no, they're not exaggerating and neither is the FCC, who declared a looming spectrum crunch in the National Broadband Plan.
To get to the higher data rates supported by LTE and LTE Advanced, the carriers need more spectrum. Instead of 5 and 10 MHz channels, they need 20 MHz or better. This isn't carrier fiction, the same dynamic exists in Wi-Fi: To get to 802.11n's maximum speeds, it needs to use 40 Mhz channels instead of old school 20 MHz channels, and to get to 802.11ac's peak rates it needs an 80 MHz channel.
Do you see a pattern here?
Whining about carrier behavior is sometimes warranted, but the ability to bring the snark isn't a substitute for real technical knowledge or for exceptional policy wisdom, it's simply lame link-whoring.
The man said "we can meet our LTE objectives for next two years." The National Broadband Plan said the spectrum crunch is five to ten year problem.
The spectrum crunch is real, and metered pricing is one reaction to it. If you like metered pricing, keep on ignoring the realities of spectrum and you'll find a lot more fun stuff to complain about.
The Internet's business model for content seems to involve giving your work away for free and buying lottery tickets with the artist's earnings from Starbucks.
There is no reason to get all bent over specific job loss calculations. Copyright protection is asserted as a human right in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in Article 27b. Quibble all you want over job loss but recognize that you're advocating denial of a human right when you argue against any meaningful enforcement of copyright.
Your expert analyst, "furdlog," assumes that piracy is somehow confined to the U. S.
The MPAA doesn't get to $58B in losses by estimating the number of DVD sales they're losing to the 29 million Americans who download unlawfully, it's a global figure.
Ha, now you've really stepped in it. Do you even know who built the core technology of the Internet? Apparently not. In addition to the well known pair of Cerf and Kahn, the key players were Louis Pouzin, Alex McKenzie, Dave Walden, Bob Metcalfe, Steve Crocker, Yogen Dalal, Gerard LeLann, and John Day.
How many of them have you asked about me?
I can rattle off a similar list for Ethernet and Wi-Fi, but you wouldn't recognize their names (or contributions) either. Give it up, you're digging ever deeper. If your goal is to establish yourself A's the Michelle Bachmann of intellectual property, you're off to a great start.
What history do I have on this blog? Years go by between my visits, it's not even on my Top 100 list.
You claim to know a lot about me, including my professional history and reputation, but never to have met anyone who knows me. Not surprisingly, you're making stuff up..
But hey, you're a former marketing clerk with a degree in labor relations with an obscure blog that's hungry for traffic, so whatever floats your boat.
My, now you're even more shrill and childish than usual.
Why don't you see if you can't calm yourself down a bit before I have to explain statutory construction to you. They probably didn't cover that too well in journalism school.
Clue: When you starting attacking what you think I do for a living rather than responding to the points I raised, you lost the argument. The rest of this is just cleaning up.
Thanks for demonstrating how little respect you have for the people who create the technologies your blog depends on, Mike. I'm quite well known in the standards community for my work on Ethernet and Wi-Fi.
I wouldn't say that I've ever agreed with you on any important part of the patents and copyrights issue; the closest would be the belief that some of your empirical claims would be interesting if they were true. When I research them, I generally find they aren't.
The patent right, like the gun ownership right, is in the Constitution. I don't expect that we're going to be amending either of those rights away, even though many bloggers are opposed to both of them.
Actually, I listened to it and found it was just typical tabloid stuff. Nothing really informative, but plenty of raw insinuation. IOW, the typical journalism major's take on the human side of issues they don't actually grasp in substance.
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Re: Re: Not exactly
To get to the higher data rates supported by LTE and LTE Advanced, the carriers need more spectrum. Instead of 5 and 10 MHz channels, they need 20 MHz or better. This isn't carrier fiction, the same dynamic exists in Wi-Fi: To get to 802.11n's maximum speeds, it needs to use 40 Mhz channels instead of old school 20 MHz channels, and to get to 802.11ac's peak rates it needs an 80 MHz channel.
Do you see a pattern here?
Whining about carrier behavior is sometimes warranted, but the ability to bring the snark isn't a substitute for real technical knowledge or for exceptional policy wisdom, it's simply lame link-whoring.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Evil capitalists
On the post: AT&T Admits That The Whole 'Spectrum Crunch' Argument It Made For Why It Needed T-Mobile Wasn't True
Re: Re: Evil capitalists
On the post: AT&T Admits That The Whole 'Spectrum Crunch' Argument It Made For Why It Needed T-Mobile Wasn't True
Evil capitalists
I wish my world were as simple as yours.
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Not exactly
The spectrum crunch is real, and metered pricing is one reaction to it. If you like metered pricing, keep on ignoring the realities of spectrum and you'll find a lot more fun stuff to complain about.
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Innovative New Business Models
I don't think that's going to work.
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Interesting
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Senate Protect IP Hearing
The Senate Hearing on Protect IP was held on Feb. 8th of last year, the witness statements and streaming video are here: http://www.judiciary.senate.gov/hearings/hearing.cfm?id=e655f9e2809e5476862f735da166ae90
Please correct your post accordingly.
There is no reason to get all bent over specific job loss calculations. Copyright protection is asserted as a human right in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in Article 27b. Quibble all you want over job loss but recognize that you're advocating denial of a human right when you argue against any meaningful enforcement of copyright.
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Re: if you can't hear the original question,
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Censorship!
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Al Gore uses DMCA to take his speech down
His objection is what, exactly? "Copyright for me but not for thee" seems to be the gist of it.
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Re: Re: Is this the best you can do?
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Is this the best you can do?
The MPAA doesn't get to $58B in losses by estimating the number of DVD sales they're losing to the 29 million Americans who download unlawfully, it's a global figure.
This is very shoddy blogging.
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How many of them have you asked about me?
I can rattle off a similar list for Ethernet and Wi-Fi, but you wouldn't recognize their names (or contributions) either. Give it up, you're digging ever deeper. If your goal is to establish yourself A's the Michelle Bachmann of intellectual property, you're off to a great start.
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You claim to know a lot about me, including my professional history and reputation, but never to have met anyone who knows me. Not surprisingly, you're making stuff up..
But hey, you're a former marketing clerk with a degree in labor relations with an obscure blog that's hungry for traffic, so whatever floats your boat.
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Why don't you see if you can't calm yourself down a bit before I have to explain statutory construction to you. They probably didn't cover that too well in journalism school.
Clue: When you starting attacking what you think I do for a living rather than responding to the points I raised, you lost the argument. The rest of this is just cleaning up.
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I wouldn't say that I've ever agreed with you on any important part of the patents and copyrights issue; the closest would be the belief that some of your empirical claims would be interesting if they were true. When I research them, I generally find they aren't.
The patent right, like the gun ownership right, is in the Constitution. I don't expect that we're going to be amending either of those rights away, even though many bloggers are opposed to both of them.
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My goodness, that changes everything.
Actually, I listened to it and found it was just typical tabloid stuff. Nothing really informative, but plenty of raw insinuation. IOW, the typical journalism major's take on the human side of issues they don't actually grasp in substance.
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That's a novel POV.
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