Why 2.4GHz? Chasing wireless history

http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/why-2-4ghz-chasing-wireless-history?c=activity

by anotherhue • 13 years ago

67 3 13 years ago

NamTaf• 13 years ago

Holy shit, I'm more astounded by their fees. From the campaign home page:

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Here at <company name| google for 'fcc document contractor'> we charge 50 per hour for normal (non-rushed) requests with a minimum of a 1 hour charge. In addition to that there is a 10 dollar delivery fee for each E-Mail we send that has attachments (the file you requested) as well as 30 cents per page of said file.

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$10 per email?!? That's goddamn highway robbery! No wonder the guy needed $1000 to even find the info. That's crazy.

Fascinating piece of history though. Thanks for that!

MetricMike• 13 years ago

Around Update 3/4, Hugh mentions that he abandoned trying to work with the contractor and instead pursued an FOIA request to find out where the documents would be, used the money for airfare to the National Archives, and searched himself.

jebeng• 13 years ago

Gotta hand it to him. That's commitment!

Why 2.4GHz? Chasing wireless history

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