Good news! Modern technology will soon enable millions of Americans to get high-speed Internet via empty TV channels known as white spaces.

The bad news: Television broadcasters want to keep these frequencies for themselves and squander this opportunity to get more people online. This month, the National Association of Broadcasters has been blitzing Washington with television ads and a swarm of lobbyists. They’re claiming that any use of vacant white space frequencies will interfere with over-the-air TV broadcasts. This is simply not true.

But we can win this fight. It’s critical that we prevent TV broadcasters from standing in the way of this important innovation.

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is expected to decide in October whether to open these frequencies for unlicensed broadband access -- or side with the broadcasters and let the U.S. slide further behind the rest of the world in Internet access.

Last year, Americans sent 1.5 million letters to Congress and halted the phone and cable industry efforts to kill Net Neutrality. This year, we're fighting to make the Internet available and affordable to everyone. Opening up white spaces is key to creating the healthy competition, consumer choices and technological innovation we need to provide an open Internet to all.

Take action to open white spaces today.