Correction
New UK regulations are set to come into force at the end of this year
Should read
New UK regulations come into force at the end of 2015
etc...
(Would use the correction link but no access to email from this PC.)
Dust off those White Space devices: New rules finalised by Ofcom
New UK regulations are set to come into force at the end of this year to allow telecoms providers to use special devices to provide wireless data services via "white space" - licensed portions of radio spectrum which remain unused locally. The Wireless Telegraphy (White Space Devices) (Exemption) Regulations will come into …
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Monday 4th January 2016 10:00 GMT Terry 6
Re: But
Well, it starts with;
4 Jan 2016 at 09:04, OUT-LAW.COM
New UK regulations are set to come into force at the end of this year
But actually ends with
The Wireless Telegraphy (White Space Devices) (Exemption) Regulations will come into force on 31 December 2015.
So maybe it was drafted before the holidays and only posted today, or maybe they got the year wrong. It's just sloppy writing and editing.
Beer icon because, well what other explanation?
(Can't use email on this PC, for the correction link)
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Monday 4th January 2016 11:24 GMT Terry 6
Re: But
Well no, in this case, if I click the corrections link it tries to launch TB and I don't have email set up on this PC. I don't know what the link does, such as contain a reference to the item, frankly at that point I just can't be doing with exploring it.
If it was a grammatical error or something I just wouldn't bother. But sloppy, confusing writing and editing is a different matter. Though ( to be honest) if no one else had bothered I also wouldn't have .
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Monday 4th January 2016 10:05 GMT Phil O'Sophical
Ofcom said that only white space devices that meet "certain technical conditions" and which can operate "in accordance with technical parameters"
And will Ofcom actually verify that the devices do conform, and take action against those that don't, or will it simply ignore the problem as it does for PLT devices and misuse of CE and BS marks?
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Monday 4th January 2016 10:19 GMT TeeCee
Hmm.
New kit can't mess with digital TV...
Probably in exactly the same way that Powerline kit "can't" interfere with radio signals. The problem is that it can. And it will. And this time there'll be lawyers involved.
I still reckon that as bloody stupid ideas go this is likely to be seen as one of the bloodiest and most stupid once the dust settles.
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Monday 4th January 2016 18:46 GMT Fred Goldstein
Re: White Space devices
No risk if the new rules are a tenth as strict as the new, supposedly looser rules in the US. A device here can't use a channel if within some miles of the outer edge of a co-channel protected contour, or, except for 40 milliwatt portable devices, within a much shorter distance of an adjacent channel's protected contour. Until a recent change you thus needed a gap of three adjacent empty channels to use the middle one. Now you can straddle the boundary between two adjacent empty 6MHz wide channels (US channels are narrower than 8 MHz UK ones), leaving 3 MHz of protection, with a whopping 100 mW. These sorts of power levels are as likely to interfere with over the air TV as a squirrel is likely to knock over a tower by flying into it while looking for a moose.
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