FCC okays free wireless band!!!

[undergroundpanther]

The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) gave approval to a new spectrum which would become a free public broadband channel.
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A free wireless spectrum is being championed by FCC chairman Kevin Martin, who views the network as a way to allow low-income individuals permanent internet access.

The plan involves using a portion of the wireless spectrum currently occupied by analogue TV broadcasts as a free wireless internet channel. Though championed by companies such as Google, the plan has also been fiercely opposed by telcos.
FREE AND PUBLIC!! WOW!
http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2228140/fcc-okays-free-wireless-band

[Jackpine Radical]

1. WooHoo--LET IT BE!11!!

[peacetalksforall]

6. So much better to spy on you, my dear. (In a Little Red Riding Hood dear.)

[Jackpine Radical]

12. There's no way to stop that now, if they think I'm all that interesting.

[katandmoon]

2. Can someone explain how this free public broadband service would be administered?

[TheWraith]

18. The proposal being put forward is for a company to offer a free service tier in exchange

for the radio spectrum. They'd also offer a faster, paid service on the same network.

[Selatius]

3. The telecoms oppose because they could not compete on price with a non-profit entity.

Telecoms could make money in other ways besides controlling broadband access.

[patrice]

4. Good News!!!

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[R. P. McMurphy]

5. About time the FCC started thinking about doing something FOR THE PEOPLE!

Yes, we can have a social democracy!

[peacetalksforall]

7. Are you all crazy - everyone on a free service and they are documenting

your life in THEIR database. Then when or if Cheney is in total control - they'll yank it.

Competition is better. We should be working toward finding blue suppliers who have figured out a way to provide a spy free life. That means paying for it.

Control, do you like to be controlled? One train. Three airlines possibly going to one. Trackers on your car and credit card and every transaction, plus a chip in your shoulder? It that the plan?

Make sure there is an administration you can trust before you yell YEA!

THERE ARE NO FREE GIFTS from certain people and entities.

[Incitatus]

9. I don't think they have much of a problem spying on us, anyway.

[undergroundpanther]

10. Private companies

offer no privacy protection either AND they force you to put up with ADS ads and more ADS.

There is NO privacy anymore. Companies want to intrude to see how to manipulate you for sales. And private companies will sell your info to unknown entities for the right price.

Government already has our fucking lives in their grubby hands corporations do the work for them and the government pays them with OUR tax money.

So I'd rather have 1 free service out there,one that isn't making PROFITS.(a.k.a.getting something for nothing).

You go ahead pay fucking telecoms for net access all you want,But be aware they can raise the cost to you,change contract terms and fuck you over whenever they feel like it..AND you won't be protected by a goddamn profit hungry greedy ass corporation as much as you want to believe,they will sell anything including your life to anyone for the money..

No one has privacy anymore.

[gemlake]

13. What happened in the illegal wiretap scandal?

The government told the private companies to hand over the data, and they did. How is that any better? As someone else said, there is no privacy. Get used to it.

[peacetalksforall]

16. Not all companies participated. Having someone in this Administration

offer something for free guarantees that there isn't an agenda that allows them to make money or move closer in controlling us. The only thing in this country that counters what they are doing is the internet - and you want to give this administration that power to supply you with what you have now?

If we get to the point where the coup they have already pulled on us means anymore of a loss of freedom - we will stop learning. Learning is our greatest gift of technology. Serfs don't need to learn. They only know one form of serf and serfing - the serve and slave kind.

[TheWraith]

17. Get a grip.

For starters, it's clear that you don't know what the hell this article is talking about. You seem to think that it's referring to some government sponsored service. This is the FCC authorizing the use of this particular radio band for internet service, not the goverment building one itself. The actual services will be provided by private companies.

[chill_wind]

8. Kevin Martin

is not one of us....


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Martin_(FCC)

[undergroundpanther]

11. I know

But if the band is made available,people that want a voice can at least have a chance to take it away from the thugs because sometimes some programmers and such ARE better skilled at working things than corporate hacks. There could be a way to let it be for US and block the intruders.There are some very intelligent people out there willing to do what it takes to wrestle informational freedom from the profit mongers,nosy fuckers, and control freaks.

[chill_wind]

15. Thankx ugp. I support your premise.

I just found this particular guy's enthusiasm suspicious..

[lpbk2713]

14. You can expect the telcos to burn many millions of $$ in fighting this.

They don't want the public to have for free what they have been trying like hell to get us to pay for.