Obama Proposes to Double Airwaves for Mobile Internet BusinessWeek
28.06.10
(Updates with exposition from AT&T in 12th paragraph.)
By Todd Shields
June 28 (Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama proposed today almost doubling the airwaves elbow for smartphones, laptop connections to the Internet and new wireless devices.
Obama signed a memorandum that commits the U.S. to free up 500 megahertz of oversight and commercial spectrum in the next decade to meet demands for mobile access to broadband services.
The proposals may physiognomy resistance from television station owners such as CBS Corp. and News Corp.’s Fox Broadcasting that gave up airwaves as part of their reversal to digital signals last year, and have sought to keep their remaining allocation. Wireless carriers led by AT&T Inc. are seeking more spectrum.
Obama is embracing the State Broadband Plan offered in March by the Federal Communications Commission, led by Obama appointee Julius Genachowski. It urged more spectrum for services such as movable phones to ease a strains on networks caused by the rise of devices such as Apple Inc.’s iPhone.
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