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Let's hope no IoT company is stupid enough to send customer data over this. Stuff like LoRa is very popular these days, but they are low bandwidth. Would not be
by ampdepolymerase 6y ago
Let's hope no IoT company is stupid enough to send customer data over this. Stuff like LoRa is very popular these days, but they are low bandwidth. Would not be surprising if a company decides that MVNO providers are too expensive and rolls their own communications infrastructure.
- jcrawfordor 6y agoWith few exceptions, all commercial use of amateur bands is prohibited, and licensing is by operator rather than by device. So for an IoT provider to run into this issue they'd have to have much larger problems on their hands as well.
- jasonjayr 6y agoNot a HAM, nor any expert by any means, but IIRC, LoRa + the Wifi Bands (2.4ghz/5.0ghz) permit encryption. It's only the HAM bands that forbid encryption.