The Hitch said:sorry if this has already appeared in this thread.
But cosmo catalano usually knows what hes talking about.
http://cyclocosm.com/2009/06/the-four-impossibilities-of-radio-free-racing/
I like Cosmo's "Periodic Table of Cycling Events", and a few other things he's done, and of course the often funny-as-hell How The Race Was Won (the Roubaix wrap-up was hilarious).
But on other things I find he gets very opinionated, to the point of getting on his high horse pretty often (eg. telling cycling journos to "do their job" and shut up about Vino already, a weak analysis of the Haussler-Cav crash at TdS).
And I think his radio-ban write-up is another example of it, he seems to make a lot of assumptions which help him write a pretty one-sided story. Read the comments at the bottom of that page which effectively disassemble his arguments too. Or if you want to save some time, look at it this way...he says it's impossible....but World Champs at Geelong proved him wrong. In fact as some have said, that was a damn interesting race.