Insanity: FCC to auction 5G bands which...

[DEyncourt]

...could interfere with bands used by weather satellites to help predict future weather:

[macnuke]

first off...
where is the shareholder value of a weather sat compared to the shareholder value of cellphones?

weather prediction... weather reports are going to get lower odds of being correct in the future.

[avkills]

The weather isn't going to matter when the rest of the polar caps melt.

[dv]

first off...
where is the shareholder value of a weather sat compared to the shareholder value of cellphones?

weather prediction... weather reports are going to get lower odds of being correct in the future.

Weather observations are critical to timely logistics and military operations. This is actually pretty shortsighted.

[macnuke]

the money from cell phones is too good to pass up on.
if there is some interference... it "might" be corrected later.

if your package is a few days late.. it's not the feds worries.
you still bought it.

[dv]

the money from cell phones is too good to pass up on.
if there is some interference... it "might" be corrected later.

if your package is a few days late.. it's not the feds worries.
you still bought it.

Or they just have new weathersats in the pipeline that use different bands.

[user]

with this admin? hardly

Pi is cutting himself off a slice.

[avkills]

On another note, Wifi + FCC hoohah has also caused the production world having to upgrade all wireless mics to newer models on different frequency bands. FCC basically back-stabbed all the wireless mic, wireless communications companies.

[macnuke]

backstab? how dare they use unbillable bandwidth

[avkills]

backstab? how dare they use unbillable bandwidth

ummm, yeah.

[iDaemon]

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/201 ... -20-years/