“Lawrence Summers, director of the White House National Economic Council, is expected to detail the presidential memorandum in a speech Monday,” Favole reports. “The memorandum would make available 500MHz of federal and commercial spectrum over the next 10 years.”
Favole reports, “A key part of the move will also be to help build a nationwide interoperable mobile broadband network for public safety, the administration official said.”
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Jack” for the heads up.]
3, 2, 1…
Oh great.
More capped, metered, taxed, spectrum.
Probably got tired of his dropped calls to Putin while negotiating nuclear warhead reduction. Damn you AT&T;!!
I expect, based on precedent, that much or most of that spectrum is currently in use. So who’s going to be asked to “sacrifice” what they currently have. Some spectrum made available in recent years, for example, was being used by the military for communication and GPS purposes. They had to “move”.
And, there are absolutely no strings attached.
Another shameless politically-linked MDN thread. YIPPEEE!!!!
@Deus Ex Technica
But it’s absolutely OK to have this if we have a Republican president, right?
And at the same time the O gets the Internet kill switch.
Obama giveth, Obama Rajeev away. (see next article above this one)
@Macromancer.
No.
@Macromancer: What do you expect from <s>Matt Drudge Jr.</s> MDN and all his Klan buddies who reflexively hate Obama because he’s black?
@Deus Ex Technica
agreed.
@Tommy Boy
I expect more of the same fear mongering.
What’s up MDN, no dig at the left winger commie alien Obama? Did you finally figure out that mixing politics with tech news makes your site a joke? Keep up the Apple news, keep up the witty commentary, keep up the haughty opi ions. Kill the political banter! We don’t come here to get election advice. Over and out.
Really, “Klan buddies”? All we need now is a way to blame it on Bush and that completes the talking points memo.
Sorros: How do you write Democrats so well?
MDN: I start with a socially liberal Republican, and I take away reason and accountability.
Dropped calls? Obama and Medvedev tweet each other.
This isn’t a politically based post by MND. All it reads is about the possibility of having a greater wireless spectrum for commercial and fed use. If you don’t want a political posting, don’t read it and don’t create one to complain about.
@there you go again…
Nicely played.
“…government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.” – Ronald Reagan
Out of curiosity MDN, why don’t your headlines ever address Obama as U.S. President Obama or President Obama like you did with Bush?
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He won’t be here for another 4 years, let alone a decade. I pray the damage this doofus has wreaked on the USA will be negated.
Keep praying, IT is a total waste of time.
Jeez, and all I was going to say was that even with double the spectrum AT&T;will still manage to drop calls. Instead of AT&T;jokes, it’s just politicizing. I give up on you people. Both sides suck, both sides have their hand in the till, same dance, just different tune. Why do you think one is different from the other?
First they came for my analog TV and I said nothing. Next they came for the FM band……
More and better broadband would be nice……Oh, wait, I’m supposed to bash Obama or Beck, not comment on the article. Damn.
Raymond in DC:
I expect, based on precedent, that much or most of that spectrum is currently in use. So who’s going to be asked to “sacrifice” what they currently have. Some spectrum made available in recent years, for example, was being used by the military for communication and GPS purposes. They had to “move”.
No worries. In Obama’s vision of the future, there is no military.