Haha. I have been talking on this blog about how new technologies will have limit telecom’s influence on things. It makes entrants much easier as costs are lower. IDA would have liked that as more competition is beneficial to the public. We have already seen MyRepublic and ViewQuest benefiting the consumers.

Free Super Wifi

Enter Super Wifi. A plan by the US FCC to use the whitespace used by the TV spectrum to create a crazily large WIFI zone that you can do anything.

According to ZDNet’s Stephen Vaughn-Nichols, Super Wi-Fi is, surprisingly, not some kind of miraculous new technology, but is actually an idea that’s been kicking around for close to ten years now. It refers to the unused ‘white space’ spectrum in the 600MHz bandwidth, which is far more powerful than the broadband and 4G LTE spectrum offered by carriers today. Currently this white space isn’t being ...

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