Posts by saltycupcakes 8 publicly visible posts • joined 9 Aug 2023
ESN seems like a colossal waste of money, just make some legislation to require all phone companies to make a special SIM that works across all networks and has priority over standard users. It's much easier and cheaper to make it the carriers problem.
And for backup just keep the old system and/or train users how to use regular walkie talkies.
Failing that, why not wait a few years to see what other countries do with their systems and copy them.
All you have to do is lookup weather radar interference to see how successful restricting the 5 Ghz frequency has been (not effective at all).
Just because a piece of paper says its restricted isn't going to stop Steve from using his American phones hotspot or Ivan from screwing with it for giggles.
Expecting allocated spectrum to be free of interference is arrogant at best and if your system be whatever it is, is unable to handle it, that's on the system designer.
Imo it's Boeing and Airbuses fault for designing half arsed radio altimeters that don't have any mitigations or perform sanity checks on the data.
This seems unenforceable imo given that WiFi 6E kit is freely available and will just be set to the US locale by techies looking for extra performance because nobody really cares if their WiFi is technically in violation of something that will be so common ofcom won't be able to police it.
Phone network providers should stick to the lower end of the spectrum, I don't care about high speed Internet standing in the middle of the street, you'd get your phone nicked in most places if you even tried to use it, I'd be more than happy with consistent mediocre speed (1 MBPS) inside shops and on trains.
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