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Tuesday, April 09, 2002
http://news.com.com/2100-1033-877572.html Will Wi-Fi overwhelm satellite radio? Ben Charny, Staff Writer, CNET News.com Satellite radio stations aren't too happy rubbing bandwidth shoulders with Wi-Fi wireless networks. The two wireless industries broadcast their signals on radio waves separated by only a small buffer. So far, that buffer has kept the millions of Wi-Fi networks from interfering with radio broadcasts by Sirius Satellite Radio or XM Satellite Radio. But the radio companies don't think the relative calm will last, so they are asking the U.S. Federal Communications Commission to step in. Within a few years, they say, interference from the huge number of people using Wi-Fi's signal will bleed through that buffer and snarl their signals, blasting listeners with the kind of hissing, pops and humming that overwhelms a radio receiver placed too close to a cell phone....
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