Re: Ofcom not thinking - as usual
"Of course the politicos are too dumb to realise that a 20Mhz wide band is next to useless for modern digital coms except 2 way taxi/bus type TX and , err, broadcasting."
Funnily enough, New Zealand spend 20 years (starting in the early 1980s) VACATING the 2way radio stuff that had been using the 80-110MHz band since 1946 to make way for FM broadcasters.
A compelling reason was that from the 1970s onwards FM pirates kept wiping out chunks of the band and it was pretty much "whack-a-mole" despite trying strict import restrictions on equipment capable of transmitting into the bands (in a lot of cases the radio inspectors were sympathetic and would "anonymously" warn of impending raids to give operators time to move their kit or only move when forced to due to complaints about potty mouths on air)
Biting the hand that feeds IT
