Obama's Goal: 98% of US Covered By 4G

alphadogg writes "Ninety-eight percent of US residents would have access to high-speed mobile broadband service within five years under a plan that President Barack Obama detailed Thursday. Obama's proposal, which he alluded to in his State of the Union speech last month, would free up 500MHz of wireless spectrum over a decade by offering to share spectrum auction proceeds with current spectrum holders, including television stations, that have unused airwaves. The cost of the proposal is likely to raise questions from lawmakers, and some backers of government broadband spending have already raised concerns that the plan would give money and spectrum to large mobile carriers."

Comments

Re:Let's not let broadband history repeat itself..

[cforciea]

More people need to read Atlas Shrugged.

No. No no no. No no no no no no no. Nononononononononononononnonononono.

Ayn Rand was a decent novelist, and a travesty of an economist and philosopher.

Re:Great for middle-class employed people.

[commodore6502]

>>>5-7% of it.

Well I googled it. POTS copper line leads into 95% of Alaskan homes, mainly due to FDR's universal service fund subsidizing the lines. In other words - you were waaaaay off.