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With no FCC to hold back use of modern radio technology, we could all choose from among dozens of WISPs. Net neutrality would be table stakes from most of those, because actual competition. The FCC does nothing in the WiFi space, and that space is flourishing. If they did nothing over the entire spectrum, the entire spectrum would flourish (eventually).


> The FCC does nothing in the WiFi space

Who regulates the power limits on consumer WiFi devices? You think it’s the goodness of device makers’ hearts that keeps them from screaming across county lines?


Better radio tech can deal with higher noise floors. It's not as if the military has to ground their planes whenever the bad foreign leader du jour cranks up his WiFi...

I know there would be a transition period during which people would be pissed off that FM had gone away. After we got through that transition, we would enjoy many benefits.


> It's not as if the military has to ground their planes whenever the bad foreign leader du jour cranks up his WiFi...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93U.S._RQ-170_incid...


That link seems to describe a hack of a vulnerable C&C protocol rather than basic radio interference?


They jammed the the C&C and encrypted military GPS and spoofed the civilian fallback GPS to run it into the ground.




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