FCC Whitespace Decision Needs Your Attention

I am posting the content of a letter from Timothy Karr of FreePress.net concerning the upcoming FCC decision on the future treatment of wireless frequency vacated by digital broadcast TV.   An explanation of the issue is here.

As I have previously posted here and here, the availability of wireless spectrum for use by competitive broadband providers is of paramount importance to the future of the communications industry.   In the FCC's previous opportunity opportunity to make spectrum available - last years 700Mhz auction -  it fortified  the telco/celco stranglehold on the U.S. communications industry, with AT&T emerging as the majority winner.    Given current technology, the whitespace frequencies represents the  last opportunity to carve out a piece of the wireless spectrum for competitive wireless broadband services.

Please take the time to let the FCC know how you feel.


Dear Eric,

Tell the FCC to Stand Up to Scare Tactics and Open White Spaces for Everyone.

Sign Our Halloween
Action Card

"They're Ba-ack..."

This Halloween, the powerful lobbyists at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) are trying to scare Washington with horror stories about "white spaces" -- vacant TV channels that can be used to bring high-speed Internet to rural and low-income Americans across the country.

The NAB's hired guns have bombarded policy makers with false claims in a desperate, last-ditch attempt to hoard these airwaves and to disrupt a critical FCC vote taking place in just six days.

The FCC's five commissioners must not buckle under the intense lobbying pressure:

Tell the FCC: Don't Give in to NAB Scare Tactics

Here are the facts:

  1. If we open white spaces now, we can bring the social and economic benefits of a fast Internet connection to tens of millions of Americans now on the wrong side of the digital divide.
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  3. FCC engineers have tested white spaces devices and determined that the technology can deliver high-speed wireless Internet, without interfering with adjacent TV broadcasts.
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  5. The NAB and Big Media are doing everything in their power to close off access to white spaces because they fear competition from new innovators and losing control of the public airwaves.

The NAB is furiously spending millions of dollars on dirty tricks and political intimidation to scare the FCC away from white spaces. They have high-priced lawyers and lobbyists, but we have you.

Take just one minute to sign this Halloween action card and forward it to your friends. Free Press will deliver your cards to the FCC on Halloween and make sure they "treat" us by opening white spaces for eveyone's benefit:

This Halloween: Stand Up to the Lobbyists' Scare Tactics

With your support today, we'll expose Big Media's fear-mongering and make certain that white spaces are used to make fast, affordable Internet service a reality for everyone.

Thanks,

Timothy Karr
Campaign Director
Free Press
www.freepress.net
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