
After the White House clearly stated that it doesn’t support the free nationwide wireless Internet idea, the FCC has decided to cancel its December 18th meeting. The vote has been clearly delayed and we have no information on when the FCC will meet again for the free spectrum. All we know now is that the Bush administration has rejected the idea so everyone might be waiting for the Obama administration to change things around. Probably January will bring us more information but I wouldn’t expect free Internet any time soon.
via WSJ
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[...] White Space is a term used in telecommunications used to describe frequencies that should be used for broadcasting although but not used anymore. So guess what happened after everyone was forced to switch to digital TV? A bunch of frequencies out there were turned into white space so we should see plenty of networks use the freed up bands in the near future. [...]