US Considers Some Free Wireless Broadband Service

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday March 9, 2010 @04:29PM from the get-what-you-don't-pay-for dept.

gollum123 writes "US regulators may dedicate spectrum to free wireless Internet service for some Americans to increase affordable broadband service nationwide, the Federal Communications Commission said on Tuesday. The FCC provided few details about how it would carry out such a plan and who would qualify, but will make a recommendation under the National Broadband Plan set for release next week. The agency will determine details later. One way of making broadband more affordable is to 'consider use of spectrum for a free or a very low-cost wireless broadband service,' the FCC said in a statement." Nobody has more than a couple of paragraphs on this story. None of the press coverage mentions the obvious likelihood that any such free network would be heavily filtered, censored, and monitored.

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Re:It's been done before... by Anonymous Coward · 2010-03-09 17:06 · Score: -1, Offtopic

that will never stop being hilarious!
Re:It's been done before... by Anonymous Coward · 2010-03-09 17:17 · Score: -1, Offtopic

lol, what the fuck was cmdrtaco thinking? "Hmm, I'll shove this glass jar up my ass. And make a video of it. And put it up on the internet after it goes horribly wrong."
Re:It's been done before... by Anonymous Coward · 2010-03-09 17:36 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Dude, I don't think that's cmdrtaco.
The guy in the video isn't hung like a 2-year-old in a snowstorm.