Craig Birkmaier wrote: > The question I posed yesterday is what will broadcasters do with > this spectrum to get people to start using the service again> And > can they afford to build out an appropriate infrastructure. There is little doubt in my mind that our ideas of "appropriate infrastructure" are going to be drastically different. For example, you also said yesterday that the cellular infrastructure used by cellcos is "more efficient" than the infrastructure used by broadcasters. Not so fast. For the kind of one-way flow broadcasters need to create, small cells in a MFN (which cellcos use) are a bad idea. A cell infrastructure is very much more expensive (hence "inefficient") than what the broadcasters use, FOR BROADCASTING, and it requires no less spectrum to boot. Of course, the cell infrastructure is much more efficient FOR TWO-WAY SERVICE. Even the fastest and newest MIMO options that will be used for LTE and WCDMA eventually, work best (a) with two-way devices individually negotiating with the access point, and (b) in places where multipath exists and is strong. Meaning, short range is best, and broadcast with MIMO is iffy. At long range, your multipath is going to get weaker and weaker, and will be unreliable. There's nothing efficient about requiring two-way negotiations and many towers for a broadband BROADCAST service like OTA TV. Sure, you can change TV to be a purely on-demand service. If that's the future of OTA TV, then a cell infrastructure would be necessary, *and* you can probably forget about the F of FOTA. I just don't buy, and have never bought, this idea that the OTA TV infrastructure is way wrong, as you keep advocating. Usually, when things have evolved over time, they are much more tweaked than the naysayers like to believe. Bert ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can UNSUBSCRIBE from the OpenDTV list in two ways: - Using the UNSUBSCRIBE command in your user configuration settings at FreeLists.org - By sending a message to: opendtv-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line.