back to article FCC throws open 6 GHz band to unlicensed low-power gizmos

America's telecoms regulator has opened up the entire 6 GHz frequency band to very low-power devices, alongside other unlicensed applications such as Wi-Fi kit. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) said it has adopted extra rules to allow very low-power device operation across the entire 1,200 MHz of the 6 GHz band, …

  1. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Spectrum pollution

    Should I buy my tin foil hat already ?

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Re: Spectrum pollution

      You’ve clearly never heard of supply chain attacks. You have to make your own tin foil hat. If you can smelt your own tin as well, much the better. Shop bought tin foil contains 5g and 6g signal boosters. That’s classified information that only the CIA and my Facebook group know.

      1. Anonymous Coward
        Anonymous Coward

        Re: Spectrum pollution

        "Shop bought tin foil contains 5g and 6g signal boosters."

        This I don't believe you because I was able to stop a cellphone functioning with 2 (or 3?) passes of tinfoil, shop-bought.

      2. Mizagorn

        Re: Spectrum pollution

        My tin is 100% pure with no odor and thus can't be smelt.

    2. herman Silver badge

      Re: Spectrum pollution

      Yes, but since the power is lower, you should upgrade your hat to a new version with single atom layer vapour deposited foil. Anything else absolutely won’t work.

    3. A.Lizard

      Re: Spectrum pollution

      Someone tested foil hats with spectrum measurement gear.Foil hats are MICROWAVE CONCENTRATORS.

      Aluminum foil..Tinfoil is stylish and unaffordable

  2. spold Silver badge
    Facepalm

    Well obviously...

    We don't have enough IoT (Internet of Tat) useless gubbins anyway. Finally my doorbell will be able to talk to the cat's kitteh litter tray (the Crapple iShit one from Temu).

    1. blu3b3rry

      Re: Well obviously...

      I'm holding off getting any home IoT system until I can find one that offers a "smart" bog brush.

  3. Camilla Smythe

    Doge.

    https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/17/technology/fcc-nominee-brendan-carr-trump.html

    All your bandwidth now belong to Musk. Nice try tho'

  4. StargateSg7 Bronze badge

    This FCC frequency allocation is all a MOOT POINT since NCA just introduced yesterday (December 12, 2024) the 16-state (4 bits) per cell 8192 by 8192 trapped Xenon gas micro-well array used as part of a Quantum Entanglement-based high-bandwidth wireless communications system with 33,554,432 bytes of bandwidth per full-duplex input/output cycle. At 1,073,741,824 cycles per second (1.07 GHz sample rate) for setting and reading the entire 4 bit state of each element in the array, the total bandwidth is up to 36,028,797,018,963,968 bytes per second (36 Petabytes per second) which is way beyond the bandwidth of classical computing architectures so we sub-divided the array into 8192 Separate Channels of up to 4,398,046,511,104 Bytes (4.3 Terabytes per second) bandwidth per channel.

    That sub-divided bandwidth per channel allows for up to 16 live streams of uncompressed 1.89:1 Cinema Production Aspect Ratio video imagery at 240 fps at DCI-16K resolution per frame (16,384 by 8640 pixels at 64-bit RGBA colour) and uncompressed 192 KHz at 32 bits per audio sample 9.2.2 channel surround-sound audio plus 1024 text-based metadata and vector-graphic overlay tracks PER CHANNEL! And all that bandwidth is available and assigned FOR EACH installed Quantum Array panel!

    Since we can put up to One Billion Quantum Array panels per square km, it means we can put TENS OF BILLIONS of direct full-duplex read/write Audio/Video/Metadata communications channels available within any worldwide geographic area! No more ISP providers, Telcos and Cell companies! Each device can have their own direct-peer-to-peer connection with another device meaning there is NO in-between middle-man server to intercept your communications! That also means NO MORE CELL PHONE BILLS and we also made Starlink completely obsolete with our technology.

    All Yours!

    V

    1. IGotOut Silver badge

      Oh shit. Not another one.

      If you're looking for him, he's popped back to Mars.

      1. StargateSg7 Bronze badge

        I'm BAAAAAAAAAAAACK !!!!!!!

        Registrants! Come out to Play-yay! Registrants! Come out to Play-yaaaay! Registrants! Come out to Plaaaaay-yaaaaaaaaay!

        V

        P.S. It's all real! All Yours Kiddos!

  5. awomanmanhasaname

    A better use would have been 5G or FWA.

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