The Future of Wireless Broadband?

Adroit Ape asks: "The FCC is scheduled to begin auctioning the radio spectrum salvaged from analog television by February 28, 2008. Public interest groups are calling for auction rules that give new entrants a fair shot at the spectrum, which includes 60Mhz in the 700Mhz band. Are we likely to see groundbreaking innovation in wireless broadband? Who do you foresee to be the major players in the auction and subsequent technologies?"

Comments

It depends!

[VincenzoRomano]

Wireless broadband in the sense of wifi is very likely to be stopped or at least slowed down. Because there's no money there for companies and lots of problems for governements as it's possible to everyone to build (and grow) a public free abd uncensored network.
If the sense is that of Wireless Local Loop, then it's very likely that it will succeed as the natural evolution of the . That is, lower cost for deployment, no digging and no cables.
There can also be the possibility of the so called 4G networks as the evolution of the 2.5G and 3G wireless networks. I think companies have to first get their money back from investments, huge investments.