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When AT&T, Verizon, all the major TV networks and not only those giants in the USA but also in the rest of the world feel threatened by a new free unlimited wireless broadband technology that can give every person access to communications and on-demand independently produced entertainment, then those multi-trillion telecom and entertainment giants are going to do whatever they can to stop that disruption. And if they can't stop it, they will do what they can to delay it and slow it down.

In the USA, the telecoms, the entertainment majors and the medicinal firms are the same corporations. They will stand together and do what they can to stop free wireless broadband from happening.]]>Apr 29th 2008 12:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/28/white-space-networking-could-disrupt-hospital-telemetry-systems/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/28/white-space-networking-could-disrupt-hospital-telemetry-systems/Apr 29th 2008 4:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/28/white-space-networking-could-disrupt-hospital-telemetry-systems/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/28/white-space-networking-could-disrupt-hospital-telemetry-systems/Apr 29th 2008 1:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/28/white-space-networking-could-disrupt-hospital-telemetry-systems/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/28/white-space-networking-could-disrupt-hospital-telemetry-systems/Apr 29th 2008 1:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/28/white-space-networking-could-disrupt-hospital-telemetry-systems/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/28/white-space-networking-could-disrupt-hospital-telemetry-systems/
The "interference" cited at Baylor Medical Center in 1998 was due to the fact that the the hospital was using its wireless monitoring devices on unlicensed frequencies that were actually part of television broadcast channel 9--which was unoccupied in Dallas until the FCC assigned the frequency to a local television station as its new Digital Television (DTV) assignment.
It was only when the station powered up its licensed transmitter on channel 9 that the problems began. Baylor and other local hospitals changed the frequencies their wireless monitoring systems were operating on and the problems were resolved. News reports at the time stated that the FCC advised hospitals and medical equipment manufacturers to ''avoid operating on occupied broadcast channels.''

The point is that there really is no such thing as "white space" frequencies--just frequencies that might be unoccupied in any given geographical area. Doesn't mean that they might be unoccupied at some point in the future! So wouldn't it make sense that your hospital's heart monitor actually operates in some spectrum that is set aside for that specific purpose?]]>May 1st 2008 11:11PM