Exactly.
Comment on Senate GOP budget bill has little-noticed provision that could hurt your Wi-Fi
Winthrowe@lemmy.ca 4 days agoUses of licensed frequencies can and do get reassigned but I have not heard of a situation where the genie got put back in the bottle by re-licensing formerly unlicensed bands.
Midnitte@beehaw.org 4 days ago
skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl 20 hours ago
I think it’s a similar situation to the weather radars and sattelite receivers that are getting broken as more and more components of 5G are rolled out: these industries didn’t think the regulators would be so monumentally stupid as to reassign frequencies like that. Normal politics gives years of heads up before dramatic changes like these take place, but it’s been a while since normal politics have been practiced.
As for unlicensed bands themselves, I believe here in Europe several of them got moved around a bit, though that was mostly small bands that were used for devices that have since (i.e. more than 10 years ago) been altered to use Bluetooth and WiFi and other such technologies, essentially freeing up the spectrum. Someone using their thirty year old room broadcast microphone or wireless handset may be technically committing a crime, but I doubt the impact will ever register on a scale large enough to set off any investigations.
My point is that devices can and should support these kinds of regulation changes. Allowing your customers to comply with the law while using your hardware is part of their corporate responsibility.