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Apparently, there are overlaps between common LTE bands and both ham radio bands and unlicensed (... low-power) ones... the above page states that any device with the right bands will work (... and they even got them working presumably?)
Still wearing mine... until it falls apart.
Then, I'll unbox my backup Pebble and wear it until _that_ falls apart.
Hopefully they'll have something comparable by the time I run out of them?
You already can't do whatever you want, even in ISM bands (... a WiFi AP with 5 kW transmit power would be really bad for everyone. It's also fairly illegal.) Having some rules forcing devices to cooperate (... perhaps more intelligently than WiFi currently does) would be welcome... but there is a difference betweeen "having to be nice and coordinate with each other" and "needing explicit permission from a centralized authority to do anything whatsoever".
Actually, the proposal already contains this: "An automated frequency coordination system would prevent standard power access points from operating where they could cause interference to incumbent services." We could absolutely have central authority assigning time slots in congested areas in a fair way, while staying decentralized everywhere else. A bit like the way air traffic control works.
Super interesting to read about all the technologies (... MediaView? MOS? RPC for... webpage-like things?) & the way they imagined the future to look like before the web (... which is so obvious to us now that we can't even imagine anything else). E.g. the way they imagined webapps as getting a view of the file system, which is actually how Android apps turned out to be; not web apps though (... except maybe some very recent APIs?). Also, "payments" (for which we still don't have a standardized solution; we sell user data instead).
Also, knowing CSS, their statement of "layout for the web is much easier than for Visual Basic" is kinda... endearing.