Phone, Satellite Companies to Redevelop Airwaves for New Wireless Products
PBS, March 28, 2008
By Adnaan Wasey
The airwaves currently carry television UHF channels 52 to 69. Those might be second-rate properties on analog television, but they're prime real estate in the wireless world -- likened by the FCC to "beachfront property" from which providers will be able to develop nationwide, high-speed Internet products.
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