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Nextel and FCC Swap Bandwidth

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the clearing-the-air dept.

evilninja writes "Techweb is reporting on the sale of 10MHz worth of bandwidth to Nextel by the FCC. One term of the agreement will solve a problem that has been frustrating the FCC for some time. Nextel will return some of their bandwidth to the public domain, since it has been interfering with local emergency channels in some areas."

7 of 124 comments (clear)

  1. WHO CARES???? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    NO ONE!!!

  2. Beep Beep! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Nextels are the epitome of Annoying Cellphones. Oh wait, they are actually walkie talkies.. even more annoying.

  3. Re:the fcc by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    They weren't using emergency channels, numbnuts, they were using channels that interfered with them. Big difference.

  4. Leave it to the FCC... by SbooX · · Score: -1, Troll

    ... to fuck things up worse. Just what we need, more of the spectrum, and everyones ears, to be invaded by shouts of "WAAAAAAASSSSSSSSSSSSSSSAAAAAAAAAAAAPPPPPPPPPPPPPP PPPPPPPPPPPPPPP!," "Yo bitch where you at?!" not to mention the ever popular "What are you wearing?"

    Congress doesn't just need to stop this deal, it needs to outlaw two-ways all together. And while its at it, how bout banning the FCC?

  5. Re:FIRST 10 PEOPLE GET A GMAIL ACCOUNT by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Dude you fucking lamer, gmail is for lusers. It was cool for about a week until all the asstards like you started getting invites and giving them away to lusers.

  6. Need.. Coffee.. by maskedbishounen · · Score: -1, Troll
    I misread the title as "Cowboy Neal and FCC Strap-on Bandwidth", which lead me to a very "interesting" mental image of...

    ...well, never mind.

    --
    "An infinite number of monkeys typing into GNU emacs would never make a good program."
  7. Re:This story is so boring... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    OMMFG ROTFLMMFAO... that was TFF i m LOL u r so funny...

    ...not