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April 24, 2005
What Does RLAN in the 5 GHz Band Have to do with Supporting Kerry?
I don't know. See if you can figure it out. Go read Kevin Drum at Political Animal. He refers to an article from Time Online Edition that begins,
The Inter-American Telecommunication Commission meets three times a year in various cities across the Americas to discuss such dry but important issues as telecommunications standards and spectrum regulations. But for this week's meeting in Guatemala City, politics has barged onto the agenda. At least four of the two dozen or so U.S. delegates selected for the meeting, sources tell TIME, have been bumped by the White House because they supported John Kerry's 2004 campaign.
And then Kevin gives a partial agenda for one of the working parties at the meeting,
- Recommendation for 400 MHz bands
- RLAN in the 5 GHz band
- Recommendation on harmonized frequencies for property protection
- Revision to Recommendation PCC.II/REC. 67 (XIX-01) on Low Power
- Radiocommunication devices
- Radio frequency identification devices (RFID)
- Broadband Power Line Communications (BPL)
- Refarming of 700 MHz band
- Answer to Market questionnaire on IMT 2000 and systems beyond
- Results of the video conference on wireless broadband
I have attended a few international telecommunications standards meetings and I have a close friend who was for several years a fixture at them. No one I know (or have even heard of) was ever excluded from such a meeting because of their political position, at least not until this administration. The only requirement in the past was competence and sometimes great patience.
Steve Soto of The Left Coaster has a cogent discussion of this issue. His conclusion,
Here's one way to piss off the telecommunications industry: impose a political litmus test on which industry representatives can attend a meeting held three times a year to talk about service delivery issues throughout the Americas.
Posted by Duane Smith at April 24, 2005 11:06 AM | Read more on Current Events |
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