Saturday, September 20, 2014

When the Government signs away sovereignty the patriots must revolt.

When the Government signs away sovereignty the patriots must revolt.

There is no justification for including investor-state dispute in the FIPA.


http://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2014/09/15/China-Investment-Treaty-Breakdown/?utm_source=fb-page-editor-post&utm_medium=fb-page&utm_campaign=fb-09-2014

There is no justification for including investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) in either the CETA or the TTIP.
https://www.policyalternatives.ca/publications/reports/investor-state-dispute-settlement-ttip-and-ceta


As a friend, conservative and Harper supporter told me, revolution is the only way to change our system of elected dictatorship.

There are 2 ways to replace Harper
- Stand up against big international pre-election money and bring democracy
- Or embrace to the international money even more than Harper which I don't think is even possible

The trying to embrace pre-election campaign money and democracy is embracing democracy without accountability. And exactly what Harper is best at.


Elections Laws are about the most important of all laws in a Democracy. 
Elections Laws determine the who is elected and who they are accountable to.

The conservatives changes to elections laws, makes it difficult for students and more mobile people to vote.
Banning elections Canada from its duty of informing Canadians how to vote. And enabling uncapped spending for political parties to bring out their supporters, through the $20 exception. Preventing Elections Canada from launching immediate investigations into electoral fraud, dramatically reducing/effectively eliminating any real punishment for over spending.

http://www.slaw.ca/2014/02/09/why-the-conservatives-fair-elections-act-could-be-unconstitutional/

http://www.solon.org/Constitutions/Canada/English/ca_1867.html


Canada's election flawed laws are the reason we not able to obtain a Good Government. If you are in doubt for a second about this. Look at the FIFA, TPP and CETA investment treaties. These are secret agreement and are particularly harmful because it denies public access to arbitration case decisions miss-leading the public into believing their government is able to exercise sovereign powers.

There are 2 ways to replace Harper
Stand up against big international pre-election money and bring democracy
Or embrace to the international money even more than Harper which I don't think is even possible

Trying to embrace pre-election campaign money and democracy is embracing democracy without accountability. And exactly what Harper is best at.

The solution is monitoring and regulating pre-election direct and indirect advertising spending.

Corruption and democracy: Political finances - conflicts of interest -
lobbying - justice (2008)

Saturday, May 3, 2014

Support Innovation through Access to Shared Spectrum

Support innovation through access to shared spectrum

"The hoarding of spectrum is a barrier to rural broadband" 

And the lack of price competitive wireless leaves Canada at a disadvantage with reduced business and growth opportunities. 

http://rspg-spectrum.eu/_documents/documents/meeting/rspg19/rspg09_278_erg_rspg_report_on_radio_spectrum_competition_issues_090604.pdf

http://www.techvibes.com/blog/wireless-auction-wont-do-much-for-competition-2014-01-13

Spectrum Auctions are anti-competitive.

"A monopoly-like situation in some frequency bands ... lead to a similar (monopoly-like)
competitive structure on the down-stream markets."

http://www.itworldcanada.com/article/rural-users-lose-when-spectrum-is-hoarded-experts/47863

Spectrum Sharing for mobile and wireless data services opens the market to new entry and greater competition.

Spectrum sharing can be based on:

- Separating the ownership of cell towers from wireless cell phone companies. With separate ownership of the cell towers all wireless cell phone companies would have access to all wireless spectrum bands.
The separately owned cell towers would sell bandwidth access to all wireless cell phone companies.

The biggest obstacle to the separate ownership of cell towers from wireless cell phone companies are incumbent cell phone companies who enjoy monopolistic benefits of their monopolistic ownership of frequency bands. It would be no small challenge to insure that possible centralized ownership of cell towers was not used to provide preferential access to one or more wireless cell phone companies.

AND/OR

- Improved roaming between hot spots operated by different operators of licensed spectrum and unlicensed "Wi-Fi" spectrum
Removing any need for centralized hot spot / cell ownership.

Some means to improving unlicensed "Wi-Fi" spectrum sharing

- Geographical sharing
"Advances in geolocation database technology are making it easier to exploit
spectrum sharing opportunities. Here databases hold information on the frequencies
available for sharing in different locations, known as white spaces. White space
devices query the database to determine suitable channel frequencies and powers."
- Increase the available "Wi-Fi" spectrum
- Dynamic Spectrum Access
"A licence exempt approach, such as that used by Wi-Fi, provides lower barriers to
spectrum access than a licensed approach."
"DSA approach could provide a useful complement to the use of Wi-Fi based on
licence exempt spectrum outdoors in helping maintain good outdoor quality of service
in high demand urban areas" and high power required for larger coverage in sparsely populated rural areas.


Benefits:
- Reducing barriers to spectrum access using licence exempt sharing:
Sharing spectrum within a band by different licence exempt (LE) devices can significantly reduce barriers to spectrum access compared to a licensed approach.
- Increasing the supply of spectrum: The sharing of existing frequency bands on a geographical basis to provide greater access to spectrum;

Limitations
- with geographical spectrum sharing additional effort to establish and enforce co-existence rules between existing spectrum users and new services sharing access to their spectrum
- possible tragedy of the commons whereby increasing numbers of users reduce the
overall quality of service provided for everyone.

DSA methods
- use “listen before talk” protocols with licensed spectrum similar to those used by Wi-Fi to avoid interfering with nearby white space devices
- hybrid approaches, combining both geolocation databases and sensing
- Intelligent antennas, that are able to accurately focus their energy between transmitter and receiver, could be used to reduce interference between users
- (most advanced) In the event that the spectrum available at a given location is non-contiguous, aggregation enables a device to combine frequency bands together into a usable carrier of sufficient bandwidth




http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/binaries/consultations/spectrum-sharing/summary/Spectrum_Sharing.pdf