Obama To Nearly Double the Available Broadband Wireless Spectrum

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."

Re:where's the birth certificate

[Anonymous Coward]

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

Because people like you would know the truth then and have to be murdered. He's saving your life.

Squeeze out the Hams

[s122604]

Push em out of that juicy 420-450mhz slice o' spectrum.

Ok, I'm just trollin.. leave the ham's alone...

Re:Charge YOU?

[cowscows]

Wait a minute... so you're saying that when things need to be paid for, people end up paying for it? Wow, that's some amazing insight there.

Re:Wow... what a worthless article

[siriuskase]

We should put a notch filter around these people who didn't pass electromag. We need a special place in /. for engineers. The capcha to get in would be to solve Maxwell's equations. I'm relieved that apparently he didn't steal any of the ham bands. The way this country is going, we need our radios. If the internet wants to be free, it needs to get off the wired network controlled by government granted monopoly.