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by Alupis 3947 days ago
Curious why we have home devices run on the same band as airport radar systems and what-not.

Seems here the original regulation was the problem, not people modding their home routers.

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The answer is pretty simple: we are desperately in need for more spectrum (at least in urban areas), licensed and unlicensed, for wireless internet traffic. And there really are no unused bands that can simply be reallocated for this purpose without dealing with the users already in the band.

Although airport RADARs sound like a poor choice of a service to share spectrum with, they have the benefit of being stationary, not very numerous, and typically located far from the urban cores where the spectrum is needed most.