internet in the box

Sun Mar 10 12:27:17 UTC 2013

Brandon Ross wrote:

>> Or find a wireless ISP in the area to backhaul you some bandwidth for a
>> week.
> 
> Do you think the convention center that wants $50/person/week will just 
> give away the roof rights for free?

There is a legal issue of who owns the right to control radio
bandwidth usage in the convention center.

For licensed bandwidth, it is obvious that licensees have the
right.

Though it is not so obvious for ISM bands, it should be reasonable
to assume land owners have no right to prohibit visitors to transmit
in ISM bands.

For example, land owners should have no power to shut down PAN
by ZigBee.

At least, that is the formal understanding of regulators in Japan.

						Masataka Ohta