Media Minutes: February 10, 2012
Series: Media Minutes
From: Stevie Converse Candace Clement
Length: 00:05:00
Political wrangling is holding Super Wi-Fi spectrum hostage. The House has tacked on amendments to its payroll tax bill that spell big trouble for the FCC and spectrum use. And a new bill in the Illinois legislature would allow people to record on-duty police in public without permission.
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Political wrangling is holding Super Wi-Fi spectrum hostage. The House has tacked on amendments to its payroll tax bill that spell big trouble for the FCC and spectrum use. And a new bill in the Illinois legislature would allow people to record on-duty police in public without permission.
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Media Minutes
Show Date: 2-10-12
Producers: Stevie Converse, Megan Tady & Candace Clement
TRANSCRIPT
Burying White Spaces Under a Ton of Legislation
Do you remember when TV broadcasters switched from analog to digital programming? This shift was supposed to give us a windfall of Super Wi-Fi from airwaves TV broadcasters no longer need. Wi-Fi comes to us courtesy of unlicensed spectrum – the part of our public airwaves not designated for licensed wireless uses like radio, TV and mobile phones.
Michael Weinberg is a staff attorney for Public Knowledge.
Michael Weinberg: Everything that happens on Wi-Fi right now happens on spectrum that is not very good at transmitting information. TV spectrum is really good at transmitting information, so you can get spectrum that can transmit a lot more information a lot farther.
In other words, with Wi-Fi transmitted over TV spectrum known...
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