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FCC Chairman Warns of Wireless Spectrum Gap

Posted by timothy on from the congress-from-whom-all-blessings-flow dept.

locallyunscene writes "'We are fast entering a world where mass-market mobile devices consume thousands of megabytes each month,' FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski warned at CTIA Wireless yesterday. 'So we must ask: what happens when every mobile user has an iPhone, a Palm Pre, a BlackBerry Tour, or whatever the next device is? What happens when we quadruple the number of subscribers with mobile broadband on their laptops or netbooks?'"

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  1. "thousands of megabytes" by bill_mcgonigle · · Score: 2, Funny

    Isn't that why our government just auctioned off billions of dollars of our publicly-owned spectrum?

    The department that manages that spectrum is apparently run by somebody who has yet to discover the term "gigabytes". What could possibly go wrong?

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  2. Re:The facists response - by John+Hasler · · Score: 2, Funny

    Go right ahead. Don't hold back.

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