roundtable: Apple NII Petition Deadline(CITS Comments)

roundtable: Apple NII Petition Deadline[CITS Comments]

Apple NII Petition Deadline[CITS Comments]

W. Curtiss Priest (BMSLIB@mitvma.mit.edu)
Mon, 24 Jul 95 07:10:29 EDT 

Message-Id: <9507241117.AA05135@a.cni.org>
Date:  Mon, 24 Jul 95 07:10:29 EDT
From: "W. Curtiss Priest" <BMSLIB@mitvma.mit.edu>
To: Telecommunications Policy Roundtable <ROUNDTABLE@CNI.ORG>
Subject: Apple NII Petition Deadline[CITS Comments]


Our Center has studied the potential for wireless communications
and our assessment is that new wireless technologies have the
potential to provide each community with a 'universal service' level
of access using wireless.  For example, FreeWave now moves 128 kbps
over 20 miles using unlicensed spectrum.  This is equivalent to ISDN
rates with no wiring and no ongoing charges.

Therefore, we encourage all to write the FCC to promote wireless access.
We are considering our own FCC petition regarding the use of
what we are calling 'invisible spectrum' -- described in our paper
for a July 7th Workshop in Washington.  I will post that paper for
your information, following this post.

----------------------------Original message----------------------------
Date: Sun, 23 Jul 1995 14:25:29 -0400
Message-Id: <199507231825.OAA24207@clark.net>
To: BMSLIB%MITVMA.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu
From: dave@oldcolo.com (Dave Hughes) (by way of caj@tdrs.com (Craig A. Johnson))
Subject: Apple NII Petition Deadline[CITS Comments]


Curt,

You may wish to post this, with special notation that the Commission will
probably accept comments after Tuesday, according to Hughes.

Craig

>...>

You just have time to put in a Public comment to the FCC (deadline
25 July) on the Apple Petition RM-8653 which asks the FCC to
set aside 300mhz (in the 5ghz area) for PUBLIC SPECTRUM - a kind
of an electronic park which all may use, in the middle of
corporate licenced (got as the highest bidders in the spectrum
auctions) High Rise city.

With the higher power permitted, the dedication of this set of
bands ONLY for Public, no-licence, use - couple with the
technologies like spread spectrum which lets very large numbers
of radio to operate in the same bands without interference, and
at high data speeds (up to 24Mbps - yeah Megabits per second -
as the petition calls for, end users, small ISPs, public educational
institutions, small - micro-small, one person - businesses,
telecommuters all will be able to bypass the local commercial
loops. REALLY freeing up end user telecommunications from the
double whammy of local loop RBOC *and* long distance carrier
costs.

The Petition is getting the attention of the FCC. Unlike the
use of Part 15 spectrum, which carries with it severe limitations
of power, and your use can be 'subordinate' to other uses
in the 'Industrial, Scientific, Medical' ISM bands, like the
high power 'automobile tracking' industry initiative that was
recently approved, this PUBLIC SPECTRUM, using the newest
no-interference (with neighbors) radio technologies, is really
important.

So, while I am already bypassing the RBOCs with my Part 15
Wireless (take a peek at http://192.160.122.3 to see), this
Petition RM-8653 will really give you choices.

To read the Petition, http://www.warpspeed.com. As well as
the form of comments already made (including AT&T's who
opposes it on the grounds it will 'devalue' the auctioned
bands)

And then hearken to the following UNPRECEDENTED announcements
by the FCC which is permitting public comment by E-MAIL!



>From David Sidall
7/18/95,  9:25 a.m.
Subject: Wireless NII

Good morning.

The FCC now is accepting comments through the Internet on the
wireless NII proposals filed by WINForum and Apple. The WINForum
petition is RM-8648 and the Apple petition is RM-8653. Deadline for
reply comments is July 25. Each petition has its own separate
address because some parties may address aspects that relate only to
one or the other petition. However, the Commission has announced
that it will consider both petitions together in a single
proceeding, and therefore all comments filed in either file will be
considered in the broader context. The addresses are:

RM-8648@fcc.gov
RM-8653@fcc.gov


P.S. although the FCC won't say this publically, they will accept
comments made later than Tuesday also.


So strike a blow for Electronic Freedom, and support the visionary
Apple Petition to give YOU Public Spectrum to use.

And for those of you in compriv who tend to knee-jerk that there
can/should be no 'free' telecommunications - let the 'marketplace'
provide it, I answer that, if this public spectrum is approved,
that it will stimulate hundreds of companies, competing with
each other, to design, develop, market, and sell, tens of millions
of new digital devices, which the public will have to buy - just
as they buy personal computers and modems - to access the spectrum
and services linked to it.

So there is no free lunch here - cause neither the US Government,
nor the Corporations who bid on those other-spectrum licences,
invested in, capitalized, the spectrum itself. And YOU are
as entitled to use it as anyone else.


So send in your comments ASAP   RM-8653@fcc.gov


Dave Hughes
dave@oldcolo.com

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