Broadcasters Oppose Wireless Net Service

kaufmanmoore writes "The AP reports that the National Association of Broadcasters is launching ads to target lawmakers over a push by a consortium of technology companies including Google, Intel, HP, and MSFT who want to use unused and unlicensed TV spectrum (the so-called 'white space') for wireless broadband. Broadcasters are airing concerns about the devices creating interference with broadcast television. In a statement, NAB chairman Alan Frank takes a swipe at technology companies: 'While our friends at Intel, Google and Microsoft may find system errors, computer glitches and dropped calls tolerable, broadcasters do not.'"

Comments

Fuck Television

[Anonymous Coward]

we can just bittorrent that garbage if we want it over our slick ass wireless connections :)

but one would hope that it would be used for something of a higher quality than that crap they pander as entertainment.

Re:If broadcasts are so critical, how come....

[dwater]

> During the football (that's football, not soccer)

You just excluded the most popular use of the word - ie association football - but there are still several others :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football

The English word "football" is also applied to American football (also known as gridiron), Australian rules football, Canadian football, Gaelic football, rugby football (rugby league and rugby union), and related games.