Broadcasters and Wireless Providers Sound Off in Battle for TV Spectrum
Wednesday, April 21, 2010 - 10:10
in Mathematics & Economics
The Federal Communication Commission's (FCC) recently released National Broadband Plan has met with mixed reactions from the industries with a stake in the availability of broadcast spectrum. Whereas technology companies producing and serving data to these wireless gadgets want the government to remove a potential bottleneck to the Internet, broadcasters are feeling pinched, having already surrendered the unused "white spaces" in between their channels last year during the digital TV transition. [More]