Revising Spectrum Rules

Orne writes "Whereas NPR is speculating on the television spectrum, the AP brings us news that the Bush administration is set to re-evaluate government and industry use of the radio spectrum. An executive order kicks off a year of public meetings held by the Commerce Dept; the official press release is here."

Comments

Re:A Troubling Announcement

[BWJones]

If Bush is serious about this and it's just not another revenue grab for the government or a gift for big corporations, he's going to have to gut the FCC and give them serious instruction on who really should be the benefactor of any frequency allocations.

Nah. What he's a gonna do is wrangle up a posse, mosey on over to the FCC, find those pesky frequency allocations and smoke em out. Then he's a gonna appoint someone he trusts to ride herd the FCC to sweeten the pie for his buddies.

Re:Probably a change for the worse...

[evilviper]

You may be trolling

I'm not, it is absolutely true...

If Clinton had done his damn job, we would still have the twin towers because

Yeah, like Clinton was solely responsible for the entire US intelligence community sitting on their asses and doing nothing, while the information rolled in. Guess what, Bush didn't fire anyone for the major screw-ups that happened. And when filling the new positions that are solely responsible for the security of the US, he didn't fill the position with a professional, but rather, he filled it with a political ally.

Bush had been in office long enough to work on the problems with the FAA, but did nothing. Even more damming, Bush could have prevented many people from dying at the Pentagon, had he just given the order to scramble jets. It's well known that it takes less than 15 minutes for them to respond.

I didn't see the soldiers complaining to Bush that they were being kept from docking. NO, the were greeting him, and getting photos.

Read between the lines. First of all, you don't see the majority of servicemen, and I'm sure those who were taking a photo with Bush were hand-selected. Secondly, in the military, you do what your commander says, even if that means pretending to be happy to see the president, and keeping your mouth shut about what an ass he was being.

Bush is looking into what to do with the situation.

No, Bush is looking into what will be best for his friends, and thinking up excuses to do them. No US Gov intelligence agency even suggest that there might have been weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Bush said aluminum centerfuges were being used to make atomic weapons, meanwhile he knew dammed well that they were too small to even possibly be used. He was saying that Iraq had all sorts of weapons programs, and ties with Al Queada, at the same time that the CIA was publicly stating the opposite.