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THE WEEK, Page 24HEALTH & SCIENCELook, Ma, No Cable!
The FCC gives a tentative green light to video via microwave
How many ways can you take in the tube? Between broadcast
television, cable TV, fiber-optic cable, digital compressed
cable and variously sized satellite dishes, there may soon be
as many delivery systems as there are channels to choose from.
Now the FCC has added yet another wrinkle to videotic variety,
tentatively approving a nationwide television-transmission
system much like the one used to send and receive cellular phone
calls.
The new system, developed by a New Jersey firm called
CellularVision, has been operating in Brooklyn since July. It
uses microwave signals of such high frequency that they can
bounce off buildings and still be received by a window-mounted
antenna no bigger than a magazine. The system, which could be
available throughout New York City and in other major TV markets
by mid-1994, can deliver as many channels as cable TV without
the expense of having to wire up each individual home -- a
prospect that could threaten the virtual monopoly that many
cable companies currently enjoy.