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[ NNSquad ] Spectrum Use: "There is no lack of spectrum, only a lack of spectral efficiency" & The Cell Phone: Marty Cooper's Big Idea
In this day and age, a primary reason why attempts to efficiently share spectrum are slowed or blocked -- even if they're only experiments -- is that unshared spectrum allocations are in the vested interests not only of Big Telecom, but of Congress -- which finds it much more convenient to sell off spectrum in big unshared chunks rather than deal with "the little guys" at all. --Lauren-- NNSquad Moderator ----- Forwarded message from David Farber <dave@farber.net> ----- Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2010 11:39:42 -0400 From: David Farber <dave@farber.net> Subject: [IP] Spectrum Use: "There is no lack of spectrum, only a lack of spectral efficiency" & The Cell Phone: Marty Cooper's Big Idea Reply-To: dave@farber.net To: ip <ip@v2.listbox.com> Begin forwarded message: From: the terminal of geoff goodfellow <geoff@iconia.com> Date: June 14, 2010 12:24:43 AM EDT To: dfarber@cs.cmu.edu Subject: Spectrum Use: "There is no lack of spectrum, only a lack of spectral efficiency" & The Cell Phone: Marty Cooper's Big Idea Reply-To: geoff@iconia.com dave, for ip if you wish -- i'm a little late in sending this out, as the 60 minutes take was aired 5/23, but i think its still very timely. Hear the story of the invention of the cell phone from the man whose team came up with it at Motorola. The inventor, Martin Cooper, is still at it, improving the gadget he came up with 37 years ago. Morley Safer of 60 minutes reports: http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=6512514n&tag=contentMain;contentBody as an aside, my favorite (and spot-on, imho!) quote (or "Philosophical belief" as it is referred to) of Marty (who i personally know as well as his wife Arlene Harris, the founder of http://www.jitterbug.com/ and http://www.greatcall.com/ ) is: There is no lack of spectrum, only a lack of spectral efficiency. some writings of Marty on this "Philosophical belief": The Myth of Spectrum Scarcity: Why Shuffling Existing Spectrum Among Users Will Not Solve America’s Wireless Broadband Challenge A Martin Cooper Position Paper [6 pages] http://www.dynallc.com/pdfs/themythofspectrumscarcity.pdf from http://www.dynallc.com/#/Martin_Cooper_Publications/ also worthy of a look see/read are the various white papers, et al over at Marty's company, http://www.arraycomm.com/ -- the world leader in multi-antenna signal processing (MAS). Their A-MAS™ software is running in more than 300,000 base stations today, in 17 countries, with client device solutions on the way. They improve wireless subscriber experiences and radio network economics through gains in coverage, client data rates, and capacity — in WiMAX, GSM, PHS, and HC-SDMA systems. ... Martin Cooper: Cell Phone 'Father' Squeezes Spectrum By Bruce Christian http://www.phoneplusmag.com/articles/111feat1.html and There is no scarcity of spectrum today—there never has been a shortage of radio frequency spectrum—and there never need be. Personal communications and spectrum policy for the 21st century Martin Cooper Presented at the George Mason University Wednesday, February 21, 2007 http://www.iep.gmu.edu/documents/MartinCooper.pdf //geoff ------------------------------------------- Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/247/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/247/ Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com ----- End forwarded message -----