Week 3

Question 1

Interoperability

Answer 1

Something like roaming is not possible is one company’s technology is not compatible with another company’s technology.

Question 2

Why does the move from 2G to 4G take years?

Answer 2

We need customers to upgrade their phones so that the technology can support the upgrade.

Question 3

_______ _______ makes radio and cellphones possible.

Answer 3

Electromagnetic energy makes radio and cellphones possible.

Question 4

Radio Spectrum

Answer 4

Technology that uses electromagnetic energy as a medium of communication.

Question 5

Amateur use of the radio created political pressure to

Answer 5

better manage resources.

Question 6

What did GPS and RFID make new demand for?

Answer 6

Access to the radio spectrum.

Question 7

Negroponte Switch

Answer 7

Wired and wireless information will trade places as we move into the future.

Question 8

Ambient Intelligence

Answer 8

People surrounded by intuitive interfaces that are embedded in objects/environment in unobtrusive ways.

Question 9

Who owns the spectrum?

Answer 9

Everybody, it’s publicly owned, this is true worldwide.

Question 10

Spectrum management is a _______ undertaking.

Answer 10

Spectrum management is a socio-technical undertaking.

Question 11

Marconi

Answer 11

1874-1937, italian inventor

Demonstrated transmission and reception of radio over 1.5 mile path
-not voice, wireless telegraph

Trans-Atlantic signal from Cornwall England to Newfoundland.

Question 12

Reginald Fessenden

Answer 12

1900, transmitted speech over the air over a distance of 1 mile.

Responsible for first radio show

Question 13

Ted Rogers Sr.

Answer 13

Radio officer on Great Lakes Passenger Ships

Invented first radio plug in which solved the problem of massive radio batteries.

Founded CFRB radio (Canada’s First Rogers Batteryless).

Question 14

Heinrich Rudolph Hertz

Answer 14

1857-1894

Proves existence of radio waves

Built first radio transmitter and receiver

Question 15

James Maxwell

Answer 15

Developed electromagnetic theory

Demonstrated that electrical and magnetic fields travel as waves at the speed of light.

Question 16

Nicola Tesla

Answer 16

First to generate electromagnetic waves without wires.

Father of radio

Question 17

While the Titanic did have a radio and did send out a signal when it was going down, still their signal was not received. This was due to a lack of

Answer 17

spectrum policy.

Question 18

Post sinking of the Titanic

Answer 18

Policy!

London Convention and Regulations signed by 43 countries and adhered to by 100, world works together.

US radio act 1912: 2 licensed wireless operators and auxiliary power. Bands of spectrum allocated to different types of use.

Question 19

During a depression, under a conservative government the ___ happens.

Answer 19

During a depression, under a conservative government the CBC happens.

Question 20

Oligopoly

Answer 20

Limited number of participants in the industry

Very difficult for new entrants

Not a monopoly but close

Bell/Rogers/Telus pretty much own the business

This is why mobile phone plans are so expensive in Canada.

Question 21

Until 2014 no foreign ownership was allowed in Canadian telecommunications. What is the new rule now?

Answer 21

If you have less than 10% of the market in Canada you can be bought by a foreign company.

This means a foreign company could come in, buy a company with less than 10% of the market, and then work its way up.