The FCC agreed to the usage of that White Space spectrum and people assumed that free nationwide wireless Internet access will arrive with that spectrum. But guess who shot down the project? The White House!

The FCC was supposed to vote next week on a plan to auction that 25MHz of spectrum from 2155MHz to 2180MHz band. The final buyers would have been required to offer free wireless broadband service but that’s not going to happen now.

The representative of the White House, Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez said:

The administration believes that the (airwaves) should be auctioned without price or product mandate. The history of FCC spectrum auctions has shown that the potential for problems increases in instances where licensing is overly prescriptive or designed around unproven business models.

What will happen next? Well the FCC is considering the White House point of view but in the same time it wants free Internet access for the masses. We’ll keep you updated!

via Yahoo

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