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Obama To Nearly Double the Available Broadband Wireless Spectrum

Posted by Soulskill on from the build-us-more-airwaves dept.

suraj.sun tips news that the Obama administration announced today plans to free up roughly 500MHz of the wireless spectrum for commercial broadband. From the Washington Post: "The commitment backs a proposal by the Federal Communications Commission to auction off broadcasters' and government spectrum to commercial carriers that envision their networks running home appliances, automobile applications, tablet computers and other wireless devices. White House economic adviser Lawrence Summers said in a speech outlining the president's plan that freeing up more spectrum will spur economic growth through auctions of the airwaves and investment in wireless networks and technology. ... The FCC has proposed that 280 megahertz of spectrum come from broadcasters and other sources, 120 of which would come from broadcasters. The other 220 megahertz would come from the federal government's holdings managed by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration."

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  1. where's the birth certificate by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Why has Barack Hussein Obama still not released his birth certificate?

    1. Re:where's the birth certificate by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      It's funny. I never used to buy it that Obama was foreign. It was amusing, and whatever, but why would a guy waste hundreds of thousands of dollars, if not millions by now, to prevent people from seeing his real birth certificate.

      What is shown is not a birth certificate. Any person, from any country, can receive that type of certificate from Hawaii.

      It is simple to find a real birth certificate from that era (1961) to confirm (it would be a copy anyway, but it would still be the same type of form), and, in fact, a woman born the day after has had her birth certificate released to show what it really looks like. It looks nothing like what was released and there is a lot more information.

      Click through some of the links here: https://encrypted.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&q=hawaii+birth+certificate+1961

      The second link from the above search contains pictures from birth certificates from Aug. 5, 1961 (Obama's DOB: Aug. 4, 1961): http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=105347

      You'll note what some of the birth certificates look like. They actually contain the hospital for instance.

  2. And Obama revives SWIFT... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    EU, US sign SWIFT terror finance deal, overcoming privacy worries

    The European Union and the United States have signed a deal allowing the banking data of ordinary Europeans to be sent to the US for investigation. Washington hopes the agreement will help it track terrorist financing.

    This is not the change you're looking for...

    1. Re:And Obama revives SWIFT... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      EU, US sign SWIFT terror finance deal, overcoming privacy worries

      The European Union and the United States have signed a deal allowing the banking data of ordinary Europeans to be sent to the US for investigation. Washington hopes the agreement will help it track terrorist financing.

      This is not the change you're looking for...

      STRENGTH IS PEACE AND PEACE; STRENGTH, SIR!

  3. Re:Charge YOU? by catmistake · · Score: 0, Troll

    $19.6 Billion is just too much money to just ignore and let go missing. Each and every citizen has been hoodwinked out of $65 by Uncle Sam. Thanks for all the help, Google.

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    The Admin and the Engineer