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Re:Amazon May Be Hiding Its Plans to Test New Wireless Tech by dboreham on Monday November 26, 2018 @07:15PM (#18538077)
Generally you use whatever spectrum you can get rather than having the luxury to strike beard and decide which spectrum you would prefer.

When available for non-military use, 3.5GHz will be attractive because it will be empty of encumbant users. Therefore far more usable than 2.4 and 5GHz, provided the cost is reasonable. Also likely much cheaper than the other available P2MP bands (principally allocated to LTE in the US).

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Re:Amazon May Be Hiding Its Plans to Test New Wireless Tech by chrisweekly on Monday November 26, 2018 @10:48PM (#18539174)
"strike beard"?
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Re:Amazon May Be Hiding Its Plans to Test New Wireless Tech by joshstrange on Tuesday November 27, 2018 @04:51PM (#18547170)
Maybe "Stroke beard" as in " rather than having the luxury to stroke your beard and decide which spectrum you would prefer.".

I'm imagining like a cartoon evil villain stroking their beard/chin.

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Re:Amazon May Be Hiding Its Plans to Test New Wireless Tech by gorbypark on Monday November 26, 2018 @08:03PM (#18538386)
If it's free for everyone to use (on the "lowest" tier) like 2.4 and 5GHz, won't it be quickly saturated as well?
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Re:Amazon May Be Hiding Its Plans to Test New Wireless Tech by yjftsjthsd-h on Monday November 26, 2018 @08:24PM (#18538508)
Hopefully it'll be sliced into smaller channels than 2.4 was. Also, 3 frequencies gives more room than 2.
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