« After A.I.G. pays back the U.S. Treasury, they consider suing us! | Main | Relax! You'll Be More Productive. »

Coming soon to a neighborhood near you:

The federal government wants to create super WiFi networks across the nation, so powerful and broad in reach that consumers could use them to make calls or surf the Internet without paying a cellphone bill every month.

The proposal from the Federal Communications Commission has rattled the $178 billion wireless industry, which has launched a fierce lobbying effort to persuade policymakers to reconsider the idea, analysts say. That has been countered by an equally intense campaign from Google, Microsoft and other tech giants who say a free-for-all WiFi service would spark an explosion of innovations and devices that would benefit most Americans, especially the poor.

Let's all join Google and Microsoft for the fight against the Verizon, ATT, Sprint, etc., that want to keep us tethered to their data nipples, extorting money from us each and every month.

It's truly revolutionary what's coming - as long as we keep the pressure up:

The airwaves that FCC officials want to hand over to the public would be much more powerful than existing WiFi networks that have become common in households. They could penetrate thick concrete walls and travel over hills and around trees. If all goes as planned, free access to the Web would be available in just about every metropolitan area and in many rural areas.

How is this possible, you ask?

The major wireless carriers own much more spectrum than what is being proposed for public WiFi, making their networks more robust, experts say. The proposal would require local television stations and other broadcasters to sell a chunk of airwaves to the government that would be used for the public WiFi networks.

And Kevin Drum looked further into this and reports here:

Name (required)
Email
Website
Remember personal info? Yes   No
Comments

home | music | democracy | earth | money | projects | about | contact

Site design by Matthew Fries | © 2003-23 Consilience Productions. All Rights Reserved.
Consilience Productions, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization.
All contributions are fully tax deductible.