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Comreg authorises wireless snoops in Dublin

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  • 14-04-2007 3:01pm
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    Sponge Bob
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 25,234 ✭✭✭✭


    Comreg ...the same shower who have delivered no useful licencing scheme in rural Irleand since inception and who resolutely refuse to enforce the eircom 3.5ghz liences in a manner beneficial to the public have now authorised some snoops to go around Dublin doing what should be their job .

    http://www.enn.ie/frontpage/news-10036852.html

    [FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica][FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica]The Commission for Communication Regulation (ComReg) has issued a licence to the group of international wireless industry experts led by Trinity College's Centre for Telecommunications Value Chain Research (CTVR) to work out what social and economic uses spare radio spectrum could be put to. [/FONT][/FONT]


    [FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica][FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica]"ComReg has an innovative wireless test and trial scheme, making Ireland one of the very few places in the world where activity of this kind can take place," said Professor Donal O'Mahony, director of CTVR. "The trials will showcase cognitive or smart radio, innovative networks and emerging frequency technologies with a unique opportunity for companies worldwide to trial innovative wireless communications technologies." [/FONT][/FONT]

    Now if they had this snooping regime in nearby counties such as Kildare or Wicklow or Meath where the citizenry often cannot get any useful service on 'spectrum' it would be different . But no, its in Dublin City where there is some committment to universal provision and not next door where broadband is widely unavailable ....I mean county Dublin and the inner pale.

    Nor have I ever heard a disaster area described as a "Playgound". :(

    These morons in Comreg are simply a national disgrace and a massive threat to our ongoing viability as an economy .

    Abolish them now !


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    watty
    Registered Users Posts: 32,417 ✭✭✭✭watty


    The CTVR is not "snoops" in sense you think. It is research for what wireless might be in 20 to 40 years time.

    They have a conference next week. CTVR has had some spectrum in Limerick and Dublin for a while.


    Consider 3 TX/RX sites/mobiles / bases

    A
    B
    C

    B can hear A & C, and vice versa
    C can't hear A
    A can't hear C

    This is Hidden Transmitter Syndrome. The only current solution is centralised static spectrum assignment & Planning. No-one yet has a viable solution for this (inevitable & common) situation in terms of SDR & Dynamic Spectrum Management.

    I'd be happy mind you if someone paid me for the next 20 years to research a solution to it.

    This isn't even about next year's Broadband, never mind Tomorrow's broadband. Ofcom has been frightning existing spectrum users in UK talking about this idea as if they can start do it now. Obviously existing TVs, Stage Radio microphones, Mobile Phones, PMR446s, CBs, DAB, FM Radio, Astronomy, WiFi, WiMax etc isn't quite ready for this grand vision of the future.

    Nice to see Comreg being up to date though.


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