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Obama Announces Plans to "Unleash" 500 MHz of New Wireless Spectrum (readwriteweb.com)
18 points by Anon84 on June 28, 2010 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



Most of the prime spectrum <3GHz won't be able to be reallocated, unless they're going to be willing to spend tons of cash and/or upset lots of people. If they won't, it'll most likely only be valuable for non-portable or semi-mobile devices. WISPs, in-vehicle broadband, anything that can have relatively large antennas at the consumer side. Currently, handset-type devices have more spectrum than can be practically used within the next few years.




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