An EveryMan Explaination of the ‘White Space’ War

Much of the items we cover on this blog is drool stuff. We try t liven it up from time to time. Well the NY Post takes a stab at it too. They do a fair job too. –

IT’S a sad state of affairs when the interests of American consumers - and our digital fate - are being better represented by Google than by government. But that’s the state of the debate over what to do with the “white spaces” between TV channels.

The white spaces are the spectrum that will be freed up when TV broadcasters finish switching to wavelengths reserved for digital transmission in 2009. Google wants the spectrum liberated so any of us can freely use it, as we do now with wi-fi frequencies.

Read the whole thing. The outcome may very well determine whether this country is first rate or no rate in the broadband space globally.

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