By cpncrunch
As I understand it, this was all known when 5Ghz wifi was introduced, so it was a trade-off (see the 2013 NTIA report for details). I don’t think it makes sense for them to move all existing services in the 5Ghz band to a completely new band (which might not work anyway, due to the technical requirements of doppler windshear radar). It probably also wouldn’t make sense to limit wifi to a small range of the 5Ghz band. However I’m not really an expert on this, so feel free to correct me.
Oh, and you can get freedom — it’s just the radio software that’s the issue. The obvious solution is to make the radio software un-flashable, and leave the router software flashable.
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