The UK is threatening that as well, ChrisT.
Chris
> On 18 Jan 17, at 01:57, Chris Trask <christrask@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> If you think THAT's bad, then you really don't want to know that Norway
> is pulling the plug on analogue FM broadcasting. They will soon be using
> digital FM only.
>
>>
>>> Welcome to the free market economy. In our ongoing move to fascism,
>>> where the government is owned by private businesses. Our governmental
>>> agencies that are responsible for standardization have allowed two
>>> different kinds of cell phones to be sold, like AM and FM radio. So,
>>> if you go from AT&T to T-Mobile or something similar, your phone won't
>>> work. I suspect that the carriers like it that way because when you
>>> change carriers, they can sell you a new phone, or lock you into an
>>> eternal lease.
>>
>> Legacy GSM and CDMA. That's only part of the equation, though. There is also
>> the issue of various bands of frequencies that the carriers lease from the
>> government through spectrum auctions. It's a convoluted mess that the FCC
>> has only managed to make worse and worse. Say what you want about the
>> outgoing FCC chairman. He did a couple of things right, but between spectrum
>> auctions and net neutrality he managed to make hash of everything.
>>
>> One man's yeast extract is another man's Vegemite.
>>
>
>
> Chris
>
> When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro
> - Hunter S. Thompson
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