FCC Goes Halfway On Opening 700 MHz Spectrum

The FCC has set rules for the upcoming auction of 700-MHz spectrum and they went halfway on the four open access principles that Google and others had called for. The agency said yes to "open devices" and "open applications," thus requiring the auction winner to permit consumers to use any device or application on the network. But the FCC turned down "open services" and "open networks," so the winners will not be obligated to let others buy access at wholesale prices in order to offer network services. This vote would seem to mean that Google won't bid in the spectrum auction. Ars has a more in-depth look at the outcome.

Abolish the FCC!

[Anonymous Coward]

Put its power in the hands of the people! What could go wrong?

No

[EmbeddedJanitor]

It means you can only use single-sideband modulation. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-sideband_modul ation [wikipedia.org]

Re:Halfway is no good

[Anonymous Coward]

What can you do? At the very minimum donate some of AT&T's money to Google.

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