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RKP5637

(67,032 posts)
Fri Feb 17, 2012, 05:07 PM Feb 2012

Congress to Sell Public Airwaves to Pay Benefits

(Will this have any impact on 'over the air' DTV, or is this just the analogue bandwidths?)

See >>> http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/17/business/media/congress-to-sell-public-airwaves-to-pay-benefits.html

"The need for revenue to partly cover the extension of the payroll tax cut and long-term unemployment benefits has pushed Congress to embrace a generational shift in the country’s media landscape: the auction of public airwaves now used for television broadcasts to create more wireless Internet systems.

If a compromise bill completed Thursday by Congress is approved as expected by this weekend, the result will eventually be faster connections for smartphones, iPads and other data-hungry mobile devices. Their explosive popularity has overwhelmed the ability, particularly in big cities, for systems to quickly download maps, video games and movies."

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Congress to Sell Public Airwaves to Pay Benefits (Original Post) RKP5637 Feb 2012 OP
Scarce broadcast bandwidth will be used by people playing videogames Kolesar Feb 2012 #1

Kolesar

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1. Scarce broadcast bandwidth will be used by people playing videogames
Fri Feb 17, 2012, 08:18 PM
Feb 2012

Amateur radio operators everywhere sigh with disgust

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