IP: Data-PCS: The Beginning of the End?

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

> At 8:50 -0700 8/3/01, Bennett Z. Kobb wrote:
> > From: "Bennett Z. Kobb" <bkobb () newsignals com>
> > To: dewayne () warpspeed com
> > Subject: Data-PCS: The Beginning of the End?
> > Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2001 08:50:24 -0700
> > MIME-Version: 1.0
> >
> > Among its perhaps more high-profile items, Thursday's RF-heavy FCC agenda 
> > includes rulemaking actions releated to unlicensed PCS, including a 
> > longstanding petition of WINForum to use 1910-1920 MHz for isochronous devices.
> >
> > That segment, along with 2390-2400 MHz, are available for but have not 
> > been used for unlicensed data communications ("Data-PCS") as far as I 
> > have been able to tell.
> >
> > If granted, the request would double the spectrum for enterprise cordless 
> > phone systems, expanding them beyond 1920-1930 MHz down to 1910 MHz. 
> > Asynchronous devices (wireless LANs and related future products) would no 
> > longer be permitted in 1910-1920 MHz.
> >
> > So the wireless data community could kiss some of its spectrum goodbye, 
> > not that it would be recognized or missed, until it's perhaps too late to 
> > do anything about it.
> >
> > On the other hand, recent noises from the FCC suggest that it's not 
> > wireless LANs or cordless phones, but 3G phones, that the Commish cares 
> > about right now. The Data-PCS and UPCS spectrum could be targeted to help 
> > pacify the 3G mania.
> >
> > Benn Kobb
> > http://www.spectrumfinder.net



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