White Space Access Approved

In an earlier post I mentioned that the FCC was sitting on some sweet spectrum. Well, they released it! This means a swath of new gadgets is going to invade the US, and the internet may, at last, become ubiquitous.

Roger Cochetti, group director of U.S. Public Policy for the Computing Technology Industry Association, said the FCC's ruling will soon make Internet access "appear as common and ubiquitous as air" and will work to collapse the digital divide.
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The spectrum signals have much longer range than today's Wi-Fi technology, so broadband access can be spread using fewer base stations. That should result in superior coverage at lower cost.

It may also threaten the traditional cell phone carrier business model, eventually; something I could hardly support more.