> But the Commission questioned whether any bandwidth limit was needed in its place.
Seems pretty fundamental to their mission to regulate allocations by restricting spillover. Do we have nothing but clowns running the FCC now?
Seems pretty fundamental to their mission to regulate allocations by restricting spillover. Do we have nothing but clowns running the FCC now?
They absolutely aren't considering letting amateur radio use all the spectrum.
I feel like the intended use of the word “broadband” in this context was the more commonplace (but imprecise) “data rate” definition.
The issue in apartments is TOO much power, not too little.
Both amateur and commercial developers are forbidden from using the best available technology to use the RF spectrum as efficiently as possible.
Edit: prior poster elaborated after I wrote this comment.
The point of this specific regulation is to prevent tragedy of the commons in a shared band -- if you want fewer restrictions go ahead and license your own spectrum; it wont be cheap.
If anything, it should be responding to new technology by encouraging their use to make use of shared bands more efficient, for example by reducing the power limit and restricting the use of inefficient modulation schemes.
edit: I know the article was about symbol rates, and I would agree that a symbol rate limit is silly, but you're responding to my comment which was just about the power limit.