If you think THAT's bad, then you really don't want to know that Norway is
pulling the plug on analogue FM broadcasting. They will soon be using digital
FM only.
>
>> Welcome to the free market economy. In our ongoing move to fascism,
>> where the government is owned by private businesses. Our governmental
>> agencies that are responsible for standardization have allowed two
>> different kinds of cell phones to be sold, like AM and FM radio. So,
>> if you go from AT&T to T-Mobile or something similar, your phone won't
>> work. I suspect that the carriers like it that way because when you
>> change carriers, they can sell you a new phone, or lock you into an
>> eternal lease.
>
>Legacy GSM and CDMA. That's only part of the equation, though. There is also
>the issue of various bands of frequencies that the carriers lease from the
>government through spectrum auctions. It's a convoluted mess that the FCC
>has only managed to make worse and worse. Say what you want about the
>outgoing FCC chairman. He did a couple of things right, but between spectrum
>auctions and net neutrality he managed to make hash of everything.
>
>One man's yeast extract is another man's Vegemite.
>
Chris
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro
- Hunter S. Thompson
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