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Congress Wants FCC To Auction TV White Spaces
GovTechGuy writes "Things don't look good for Google, Microsoft and other companies hoping to experiment with super WiFi and other technologies in unused TV channels or 'White spaces'. Both House Republicans and Senate Commerce Chairman Jay Rockefeller are prodding the FCC to sell as much spectrum as possible at next year's incentive auction, which may not leave much for those hoping to advance the next generation of WiFi technology."
They are bought and paid for.
Its our bandwidth and they're selling it off to their corporate cronies.
Where's the outrage, America ?
no, all frequencies are sold off to the highest bidder to do with as they please as long as they follow the rules for that block. only reason TV frequencies were free was because the stations agreed to free broadcasts
no, all frequencies are sold off to the highest bidder to do with as they please as long as they follow the rules for that block. only reason TV frequencies were free was because the stations agreed to free broadcasts
When TV first came along, TV frequencies were licensed to broadcasters to operate "in the public interest", same as with radio.
That was back before some gang of idiots got the idea to sell irreplaceable spectrum instead of just license or lease it.
May they suffer many various and sundry unpleasantries the rest of their days.
I see even classic Slashdot is now pretty much unusable on dial up anymore.