http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/28/fcc-keen-on-commandeering-tv-spectrum-for-wireless-broadband/ Engadget Comments for FCC keen on commandeering TV spectrum for wireless broadband http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/28/fcc-keen-on-commandeering-tv-spectrum-for-wireless-broadband/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/28/fcc-keen-on-commandeering-tv-spectrum-for-wireless-broadband/Oct 28th 2009 7:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/28/fcc-keen-on-commandeering-tv-spectrum-for-wireless-broadband/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/28/fcc-keen-on-commandeering-tv-spectrum-for-wireless-broadband/Oct 28th 2009 9:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/28/fcc-keen-on-commandeering-tv-spectrum-for-wireless-broadband/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/28/fcc-keen-on-commandeering-tv-spectrum-for-wireless-broadband/Specifically I am speaking to net neutrality and maximum charges per mb.]]>Oct 28th 2009 7:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/28/fcc-keen-on-commandeering-tv-spectrum-for-wireless-broadband/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/28/fcc-keen-on-commandeering-tv-spectrum-for-wireless-broadband/Oct 28th 2009 8:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/28/fcc-keen-on-commandeering-tv-spectrum-for-wireless-broadband/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/28/fcc-keen-on-commandeering-tv-spectrum-for-wireless-broadband/Oct 28th 2009 8:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/28/fcc-keen-on-commandeering-tv-spectrum-for-wireless-broadband/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/28/fcc-keen-on-commandeering-tv-spectrum-for-wireless-broadband/Oct 28th 2009 7:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/28/fcc-keen-on-commandeering-tv-spectrum-for-wireless-broadband/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/28/fcc-keen-on-commandeering-tv-spectrum-for-wireless-broadband/Oct 28th 2009 8:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/28/fcc-keen-on-commandeering-tv-spectrum-for-wireless-broadband/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/28/fcc-keen-on-commandeering-tv-spectrum-for-wireless-broadband/Oct 28th 2009 8:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/28/fcc-keen-on-commandeering-tv-spectrum-for-wireless-broadband/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/28/fcc-keen-on-commandeering-tv-spectrum-for-wireless-broadband/Oct 28th 2009 8:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/28/fcc-keen-on-commandeering-tv-spectrum-for-wireless-broadband/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/28/fcc-keen-on-commandeering-tv-spectrum-for-wireless-broadband/
Comcast alone has spent $millions on campaign contributions and lobbying activities. Who do you think Ms. Pelosi, Mr. Frank, and others will listen to. Mr. "I want free TV" or Mr. Moneybags?]]>Oct 28th 2009 10:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/28/fcc-keen-on-commandeering-tv-spectrum-for-wireless-broadband/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/28/fcc-keen-on-commandeering-tv-spectrum-for-wireless-broadband/Oct 28th 2009 11:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/28/fcc-keen-on-commandeering-tv-spectrum-for-wireless-broadband/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/28/fcc-keen-on-commandeering-tv-spectrum-for-wireless-broadband/
I think the name you were trying to think of there was McCain.]]>Oct 28th 2009 11:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/28/fcc-keen-on-commandeering-tv-spectrum-for-wireless-broadband/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/28/fcc-keen-on-commandeering-tv-spectrum-for-wireless-broadband/
Now, if they offered free Internet vs free TV, that would be a tough choice. I can download the TV shows I currently watch... And the FCC wouldn't be able to regulate/censor TV and movies on-line. Then again, I don't have to worry about getting the OTA shows I watch tracked. ]]>Oct 28th 2009 12:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/28/fcc-keen-on-commandeering-tv-spectrum-for-wireless-broadband/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/28/fcc-keen-on-commandeering-tv-spectrum-for-wireless-broadband/
Don't fool yourself into thinking the she zombie (her face looks stitched on) liberal that is Pelosi flying on her multimillion dollar private jet (yay environment?) is any less likely to be in the pocket of business then a republican.

They are pretty much all the same, their party just represents some kind of cue card for the lies they will feed you to get into office so they can then sell favors to the people who got them there in the first place.

Newsflash, you don't get elected to the senate with a pocket full of hopes and dreams buddy, you do it with lots and lots of campaign money... 2 guesses where that comes from.

Remember, republicrats, different things come out of their mouths, but in the end you still get it in the ass.


Here's hoping they use some vaseline and attach some provisions about "fair and reasonable" data charges... instead of letting them charge you like 5 bucks a meg.]]>Oct 28th 2009 1:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/28/fcc-keen-on-commandeering-tv-spectrum-for-wireless-broadband/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/28/fcc-keen-on-commandeering-tv-spectrum-for-wireless-broadband/Oct 28th 2009 8:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/28/fcc-keen-on-commandeering-tv-spectrum-for-wireless-broadband/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/28/fcc-keen-on-commandeering-tv-spectrum-for-wireless-broadband/Oct 28th 2009 9:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/28/fcc-keen-on-commandeering-tv-spectrum-for-wireless-broadband/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/28/fcc-keen-on-commandeering-tv-spectrum-for-wireless-broadband/Oct 28th 2009 9:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/28/fcc-keen-on-commandeering-tv-spectrum-for-wireless-broadband/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/28/fcc-keen-on-commandeering-tv-spectrum-for-wireless-broadband/
Whatever. Being second to hit a bullseye shouldn't make you the winner either.]]>Oct 30th 2009 9:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/28/fcc-keen-on-commandeering-tv-spectrum-for-wireless-broadband/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/28/fcc-keen-on-commandeering-tv-spectrum-for-wireless-broadband/Oct 28th 2009 11:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/28/fcc-keen-on-commandeering-tv-spectrum-for-wireless-broadband/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/28/fcc-keen-on-commandeering-tv-spectrum-for-wireless-broadband/Oct 28th 2009 11:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/28/fcc-keen-on-commandeering-tv-spectrum-for-wireless-broadband/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/28/fcc-keen-on-commandeering-tv-spectrum-for-wireless-broadband/There is plenty of grey area where they just take back some of that spectrum for use.
That grey area is much more doable in a practical sense of making it happen.]]>Oct 28th 2009 11:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/28/fcc-keen-on-commandeering-tv-spectrum-for-wireless-broadband/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/28/fcc-keen-on-commandeering-tv-spectrum-for-wireless-broadband/Oct 28th 2009 2:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/28/fcc-keen-on-commandeering-tv-spectrum-for-wireless-broadband/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/28/fcc-keen-on-commandeering-tv-spectrum-for-wireless-broadband/
Bad idea.]]>Oct 28th 2009 2:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/28/fcc-keen-on-commandeering-tv-spectrum-for-wireless-broadband/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/28/fcc-keen-on-commandeering-tv-spectrum-for-wireless-broadband/Oct 28th 2009 8:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/28/fcc-keen-on-commandeering-tv-spectrum-for-wireless-broadband/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/28/fcc-keen-on-commandeering-tv-spectrum-for-wireless-broadband/
That is just pointless and dumb if you ask me. Why not just do that to begin with and screw DTV. IT would have saved Millions of dollars.]]>Oct 28th 2009 11:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/28/fcc-keen-on-commandeering-tv-spectrum-for-wireless-broadband/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/28/fcc-keen-on-commandeering-tv-spectrum-for-wireless-broadband/Oct 28th 2009 2:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/28/fcc-keen-on-commandeering-tv-spectrum-for-wireless-broadband/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/28/fcc-keen-on-commandeering-tv-spectrum-for-wireless-broadband/Oct 28th 2009 1:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/28/fcc-keen-on-commandeering-tv-spectrum-for-wireless-broadband/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/28/fcc-keen-on-commandeering-tv-spectrum-for-wireless-broadband/
I'm all for more broadband spectrum, but why the TV spectrum? Why not some level up above 5 gigahertz?]]>Oct 28th 2009 3:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/28/fcc-keen-on-commandeering-tv-spectrum-for-wireless-broadband/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/28/fcc-keen-on-commandeering-tv-spectrum-for-wireless-broadband/Oct 28th 2009 7:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/28/fcc-keen-on-commandeering-tv-spectrum-for-wireless-broadband/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/28/fcc-keen-on-commandeering-tv-spectrum-for-wireless-broadband/
The nation is also on the brink of adding many new stations via mobile TV (ATSC m/h). IPTV has thousands of stations available to all broadband computers & broadband ready TV's. There are cable boxes being engineered with both capabilities built in.

With all the new broadcast stations created since CBS-NBC-ABC-NET(PBS) were the only options in most cities, the FCC has for forty years abdicated its broadcast regulatory responsibilities. In my opinion, as long as broadcast licenses are granted without a fee, broadcasters have a responsibility to serve the public.

If the nation needs to take broadcast spectrum for 4g services (which the FCC will sell for a billion dollars plus), we need to start first with denying license renewal to broadcast stations not living up to their broadcast licenses (such as home shopping stations & stations providing no news or public affairs programming or children's programming). We can then easily reallocate channels - thanks to HD's virtual channelization. Home shopping & specialty focused channels belong on cable anyway. These stations are not focused on national or local public service.

John Hite, retired, Oklahoma City
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This auctioning model is expensive for all of us because not only do the huge monopolies pay this money, but they turn around and charge US to cover their expense, for OUR spectrum. Then they control the network, and make the profit--to the detriment of all of us.

I say let's REALLY be like robin hood, and REALLY be like Americans were during the revolution. GET RID OF THE MIDDLE MAN. YES take the bandwidth away from the TV monopolies, but NO don't sell it to ANYBODY.

INSTEAD, open it to ANY LICENSED DEVICES. the DEVICES must follow certain rules and standards so they interoperate well together.

Then make sure that everybody is allowed to add to the network infrastructure wherever and whenever they want, including individuals, companies, and municipalities, so long as each device (such as an antenna) plays nice and neutral. Then just step back and watch the communications revolution.

Of course right now more and more municipalities are passing laws prohibiting the public from setting up networks. why? because companies like Time Warner are bribing legislators is why. http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=14934 The FCC should put a stop to such legislation.]]>Jan 10th 2010 8:52AM