Watch out weather balloons: big wireless wants your spectrum
Want to know how bad the government wants to get more spectrum licenses to the wireless industry? Now they’re going after the frequencies used to guide weather balloons.
“Last spring we identified some bands for analysis based on two criteria,” Assistant Secretary of Commerce Larry Strickling told an audience of communications lawyers on Thursday. First—”could the band be used for wireless broadband without having to relocate the existing Federal users and second, could the band be made available to the commercial sector within five years.”