[opendtv] Re: News: Google Proposes To Monitor TV White Spaces
- From: Craig Birkmaier <craig@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2010 08:42:56 -0500
At 10:39 AM -0800 1/7/10, Kon Wilms wrote:
On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 10:30 AM, Cliff Benham <flyback1@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Craig Birkmaier wrote:
At 8:10 PM -0500 1/6/10, Cliff Benham wrote:
This would be like having the fox guard the henhouse. Isn't Google is one
of the players on this turf?
Would you rather have a retiring broadcaster build and maintain the
database?
No, but it SHOULD be done by a disinterested third party.
I agree, this idea stinks.
Perhaps the FCC will agree with your positions.
I doubt that Google is going to put up the bucks to build out a white
space infrastructure; I also doubt that they would purposely
manipulate the database to interfere with other users of this
spectrum.
Why would the folks who want and need to utilize the white spaces
purposely give broadcasters ammunition to shut them down?
I'm growing tired of an industry that does little to justify the huge
swath of spectrum that they occupy, and even less to use it
efficiently. It's time for the broadcasters who want to survive to
start working with companies like Google and Apple to build something
people want and will use.
Who knew that you could use this spectrum to support broadcasting and
return paths to build the applications that will allow innovative
broadcasters to survive?
Regards
Craig
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