Phone bands

[BingoFishy]

Why don't carriers (at least in the US, don't know about other countries) fight more than they do for the lower frequency bands? T-Mobile's band 12 and AT&T's band 17 use the 700Mhz frequency which passes through buildings better, travels farther, etc. I don't honestly see why carriers don't go for, say, a 200Mhz frequency. Am I missing something? I'm sure there's reasoning behind this. 

[samcool55]

Well they can't because radio and tv are already using lower frequencies...

The frequency spectrum is actually almost completely filled, usually when a piece of the spectrum does become unused, it's most of the times sold via an auction and then it's in use again...

TL:DR they don't because they can't becasue other stuff uses it already.

[W-L]

8 minutes ago, BingoFishy said:

Why don't carriers (at least in the US, don't know about other countries) fight more than they do for the lower frequency bands? T-Mobile's band 12 and AT&T's band 17 use the 700Mhz frequency which passes through buildings better, travels farther, etc. I don't honestly see why carriers don't go for, say, a 200Mhz frequency. Am I missing something? I'm sure there's reasoning behind this. 

It depends where you are in the world but it could be occupied already with a lot of devices, in the US and Canada it seems it's already used by quite a few things, seems to also include mobile phones to a certain degree:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Very_high_frequency

[samcool55]

If yo live in the US, here's a frequency allocation spectrum chart thingy from 2003.

Quite old, but should give you an idea why

[BingoFishy]

10 minutes ago, samcool55 said:

If yo live in the US, here's a frequency allocation spectrum chart thingy from 2003.

Quite old, but should give you an idea why

What does Fixed mean? 

[samcool55]

18 minutes ago, BingoFishy said:

What does Fixed mean? 

No flippin' idea...

Maybe it means they can't be split up or something? I have no idea tbh. Just a guess.