If the FCC had given the license to CB Operators, instead of cellphones, how would this have effected communications as we now know it?

) April 3rd, 2012

CB operators fought hard to have the FCC award them the license for broadcast towers, instead of commerical cellphone broadcasters. Just think, if we did not have cellphones today, but instead had a nation on the “good buddy” network, how would you feel about sharing with the truckers?

Question: would you have been satisfied to share mobile communications with the truckers? Would cellphones communications have suffered and not near the accessability as we know it, today?

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How would that have worked? CB is transceiver to transceiver, and cell/mobile is transceiver to tower and backhaul with a backbone wired network.

Tropical_Willie (31435

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Come back, good buddy?

marinelife (62485

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All of the communication towers, that were built for cellphones, would have been given to the truckers for cb communications.Their communications would have gone into a tower and rebroadcast, just like sattelite communications.

john65pennington (29273

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I don’t think it would have effected communication very well. It would have tied up resources that few people used. It would have had a deleterious affect on the overall communications system, as well.

wundayatta (58741

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@john65pennington
Still does not compute.
Cell towers are connected to a wired network and CB are direct connection with no network or wires required.

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