http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/white-house-throws-its-weight-behind-wireless-broadband-wants-5/ Engadget Comments for White House throws its weight behind wireless broadband, wants 500MHz of spectrum reallocated http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/white-house-throws-its-weight-behind-wireless-broadband-wants-5/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/white-house-throws-its-weight-behind-wireless-broadband-wants-5/Jun 28th 2010 1:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/white-house-throws-its-weight-behind-wireless-broadband-wants-5/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/white-house-throws-its-weight-behind-wireless-broadband-wants-5/
wow, our government needs to back down already, let the private sector grow and fall on its own.. They really need to focus on one thing at a time because I can't remember the last goal they ever accomplished. ]]>Jun 28th 2010 1:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/white-house-throws-its-weight-behind-wireless-broadband-wants-5/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/white-house-throws-its-weight-behind-wireless-broadband-wants-5/
Just FYI, FCC is the only one in the US that can reallocate spectrum. So they are the only ones that can do this job. Just lettin you know so you can stop sounding dumb. (Exception to this is world wide spectrum such as GlobalStar. FCC doesn't have complete control over there spectrum because of treaties to allocate the same spectrum world wide)]]>Jun 28th 2010 1:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/white-house-throws-its-weight-behind-wireless-broadband-wants-5/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/white-house-throws-its-weight-behind-wireless-broadband-wants-5/http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/]]>Jun 28th 2010 1:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/white-house-throws-its-weight-behind-wireless-broadband-wants-5/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/white-house-throws-its-weight-behind-wireless-broadband-wants-5/
That's what she said.]]>Jun 28th 2010 1:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/white-house-throws-its-weight-behind-wireless-broadband-wants-5/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/white-house-throws-its-weight-behind-wireless-broadband-wants-5/
thanks for the info on the subject, I don't know much about reallocating spectrum. I was just kinda speaking in general terms about everything.. I get frustrated whenever I hear about white house or obama "plans".]]>Jun 28th 2010 1:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/white-house-throws-its-weight-behind-wireless-broadband-wants-5/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/white-house-throws-its-weight-behind-wireless-broadband-wants-5/
Aside from the highway infrastructure, national/local law enforcement, Defence security, public schooling, fire departments, The list goes on and on.]]>Jun 28th 2010 2:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/white-house-throws-its-weight-behind-wireless-broadband-wants-5/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/white-house-throws-its-weight-behind-wireless-broadband-wants-5/
Stop watching Fox News. Stop listening to party politics. It's sad to say that the most balanced name on TV right now for news is The Daily Show, and THATS sad.

CNN second to that, if your into really dry news.

But when you actually put down individual things Obama has done and put it to poll, he has an overwhelmingly high approval rating on the actions he has done. especially for health care. ]]>Jun 28th 2010 2:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/white-house-throws-its-weight-behind-wireless-broadband-wants-5/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/white-house-throws-its-weight-behind-wireless-broadband-wants-5/
What? "...overwhelmingly high approval rating on the actions he has done. especially for health care??" With 52% in favor of repealing the health care bill, I don't know how that translates into overwhelmingly high approval ratings.

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/current_events/healthcare/health_care_law]]>Jun 28th 2010 2:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/white-house-throws-its-weight-behind-wireless-broadband-wants-5/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/white-house-throws-its-weight-behind-wireless-broadband-wants-5/
Haha don't even get me started.. I don't watch any news station.. I actually form my own opinion from listening to actual house meetings on cspan and articles from around the world.. but thanks for assuming you know me.

you must not care much about the foundation America was built on if you don't see what's happening to this country. you are the one that sounds dumb now.. I may not be an expert on the spectrum crap but I'm very educated on the history of this country, free markets, world economies and human interaction.
.goodnight.

sorry, I have to get back to work because I don't believe in the government giving me "Change" if you know what I mean.
]]>Jun 28th 2010 2:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/white-house-throws-its-weight-behind-wireless-broadband-wants-5/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/white-house-throws-its-weight-behind-wireless-broadband-wants-5/
I hear Somalia has a Government that stays out of peoples business..

i actually think it has no government at all, you might really like it there.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QDv4sYwjO0]]>Jun 28th 2010 2:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/white-house-throws-its-weight-behind-wireless-broadband-wants-5/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/white-house-throws-its-weight-behind-wireless-broadband-wants-5/
Rasmussen is a media outfit by their own description, not a polling firm. They are also blatantly and openly Republican.

During a campaign they put out surveys that will almost always show the GOP candidate far out in front, often to a ridiculous amount, all to drive the news cycle.

Then other polls, from real polling companies like Gallup or PPP or SurveyUSA come out with stats totally different that Ras. Only when the election comes close does Ras do a real poll because its the one that is remembered.

Rasmussen is the Fox News of polling: totally worthless. ]]>Jun 28th 2010 2:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/white-house-throws-its-weight-behind-wireless-broadband-wants-5/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/white-house-throws-its-weight-behind-wireless-broadband-wants-5/
Just about everything you said was wrong. The opinions on Fox News are biased. They are on every other channel as well. It's just that Fox goes right as everyone else leans left. O'Reilly may be the smartest man on the planet.


Really with Jon Stewart???


Ohh and every poll is now showing him sinking below 40 % (not just Rathsmusen). He has around 50% dissapproval.


Spew your left wing talking points elsewhere.]]>Jun 28th 2010 2:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/white-house-throws-its-weight-behind-wireless-broadband-wants-5/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/white-house-throws-its-weight-behind-wireless-broadband-wants-5/
Dear God.]]>Jun 28th 2010 3:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/white-house-throws-its-weight-behind-wireless-broadband-wants-5/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/white-house-throws-its-weight-behind-wireless-broadband-wants-5/So you get frustrated when a government put in place by the people and for the people tries to protect the people from big industry and the top 1% of the US population? so... Lets apologize to BP, give them back their money, let the Tax payers pay for it, and screw the fisherman, because, you know, that not the only place where shrimp is catches? Or better yet, play them (BP and others) to drill in the sea (thru subsidies) while they have already got the capital and make plenty of money to already make it a very profitable biz? I think I've found the solution to the debt problem, remove silly subsidies from giant corporations and actually collect the royalties that we are owed and i think we can significantly reduce our debt. ]]>Jun 28th 2010 3:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/white-house-throws-its-weight-behind-wireless-broadband-wants-5/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/white-house-throws-its-weight-behind-wireless-broadband-wants-5/If true, the world has to create a fund for giant spaceships to leave this planet and actually fund schools in it. Because O'Reilly is dumb as George Bush, and if i'm not mistaken he might wear a tin foil hat.]]>Jun 28th 2010 3:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/white-house-throws-its-weight-behind-wireless-broadband-wants-5/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/white-house-throws-its-weight-behind-wireless-broadband-wants-5/Ohh and every poll is now showing him sinking below 40 % (not just Rathsmusen). He has around 50% dissapproval."

I'm sure the fact that Fox (sickeningly the most watched "news" station) is laying the blame for the BP oil spill and his lack of response, despite him having people flown down there the day after it happened, doesn't have anything to do with it.

The other stations lean left, there is no doubt about that but Faux news leans so far to the Right that they might as well just go ahead and rename it to the Republican Conservative News Network. They sure as hell don't follow their "Fair and balanced" tag line.

]]>Jun 28th 2010 3:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/white-house-throws-its-weight-behind-wireless-broadband-wants-5/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/white-house-throws-its-weight-behind-wireless-broadband-wants-5/
If you took the time to watch and research you would understand. Its funny when he is on Stewarts show Jon has nothing to say. I don't agree with everything on Fox, but a hell of a lot more than MSNBC, NBC, or ABC... CNN is okay, but boring as hell. If you would watch O'Reilly then you would see how rational he is. He is far from far right on his views.


I am a libertarian and I still think he is smart. I think the government should be as small as possible. The FCC isn't needed. If we really need the spectrum then someone would invest in it. We don't need some lifetime politician telling us what we need. If a company does you wrong, then switch companies. Don't complain to the government. You can do what you want, but don't force it on me too.


Also, these comments are filled with this liberal crap all the time, and I don't get it. The free market (capitalism) gave us the technology that enables us to post here. As much as everyone here complains about big companies, where would we be without them? Do you thing the government would have come up with the iPhone or Android OS? I really doubt it.

I know most don't realize this, but these big corporations hire millions of people. I think companies should be responsible and held liable. I know not every company does the right thing (ei BP), but most do the right thing. Do you know why? Because that is what grows business.

Now that I am done I will be happy to realize that the downrank will garner me more attention.]]>Jun 29th 2010 3:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/white-house-throws-its-weight-behind-wireless-broadband-wants-5/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/white-house-throws-its-weight-behind-wireless-broadband-wants-5/"The free market (capitalism) gave us the technology that enables us to post here. " Not true, the computer was developed by the US Army. It was called the ENIAC, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ENIAC also, the internet was developed by the US Military to network together radars and nuclear bunkers during the cold war. GPS technology was developed by the US Department of Defense in 1973.]]>Jun 29th 2010 12:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/white-house-throws-its-weight-behind-wireless-broadband-wants-5/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/white-house-throws-its-weight-behind-wireless-broadband-wants-5/Jun 28th 2010 1:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/white-house-throws-its-weight-behind-wireless-broadband-wants-5/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/white-house-throws-its-weight-behind-wireless-broadband-wants-5/Jun 28th 2010 1:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/white-house-throws-its-weight-behind-wireless-broadband-wants-5/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/white-house-throws-its-weight-behind-wireless-broadband-wants-5/Jun 28th 2010 1:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/white-house-throws-its-weight-behind-wireless-broadband-wants-5/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/white-house-throws-its-weight-behind-wireless-broadband-wants-5/has anyone ever really been as far as decided to look more like]]>Jun 28th 2010 1:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/white-house-throws-its-weight-behind-wireless-broadband-wants-5/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/white-house-throws-its-weight-behind-wireless-broadband-wants-5/
going on what the fuck is?]]>Jun 28th 2010 2:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/white-house-throws-its-weight-behind-wireless-broadband-wants-5/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/white-house-throws-its-weight-behind-wireless-broadband-wants-5/Jun 28th 2010 1:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/white-house-throws-its-weight-behind-wireless-broadband-wants-5/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/white-house-throws-its-weight-behind-wireless-broadband-wants-5/Jun 28th 2010 1:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/white-house-throws-its-weight-behind-wireless-broadband-wants-5/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/white-house-throws-its-weight-behind-wireless-broadband-wants-5/Jun 28th 2010 2:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/white-house-throws-its-weight-behind-wireless-broadband-wants-5/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/white-house-throws-its-weight-behind-wireless-broadband-wants-5/Jun 28th 2010 3:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/white-house-throws-its-weight-behind-wireless-broadband-wants-5/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/white-house-throws-its-weight-behind-wireless-broadband-wants-5/
Better to spend it on things that are needed.

I still want to know where of the "I'm outraged that the government is spending money!" people were when our last President was borrowing untold amounts of money to fund wars we didn't need. Why were you complaining then. Oh, wait because it was "your guy" doing it and that makes it okay.]]>Jun 28th 2010 4:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/white-house-throws-its-weight-behind-wireless-broadband-wants-5/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/white-house-throws-its-weight-behind-wireless-broadband-wants-5/Jun 28th 2010 7:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/white-house-throws-its-weight-behind-wireless-broadband-wants-5/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/white-house-throws-its-weight-behind-wireless-broadband-wants-5/
Those of us with brains (as opposed to registered members of a major party) were even angrier at Bush than we are at Obama.]]>Jun 28th 2010 10:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/white-house-throws-its-weight-behind-wireless-broadband-wants-5/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/white-house-throws-its-weight-behind-wireless-broadband-wants-5/Jun 28th 2010 1:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/white-house-throws-its-weight-behind-wireless-broadband-wants-5/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/white-house-throws-its-weight-behind-wireless-broadband-wants-5/Jun 28th 2010 1:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/white-house-throws-its-weight-behind-wireless-broadband-wants-5/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/white-house-throws-its-weight-behind-wireless-broadband-wants-5/
Whatever you're high on, I want two.]]>Jun 28th 2010 1:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/white-house-throws-its-weight-behind-wireless-broadband-wants-5/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/white-house-throws-its-weight-behind-wireless-broadband-wants-5/obama is the antichrist and all of our freedoms are being taken way... isnt it obvious?

or was i the only other one who caught this fox news nonsense in an article about bringing internet to the population......]]>Jun 28th 2010 1:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/white-house-throws-its-weight-behind-wireless-broadband-wants-5/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/white-house-throws-its-weight-behind-wireless-broadband-wants-5/
I think I'd like it better if you were uninformed, instead of misinformed.]]>Jun 28th 2010 1:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/white-house-throws-its-weight-behind-wireless-broadband-wants-5/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/white-house-throws-its-weight-behind-wireless-broadband-wants-5/
lol]]>Jun 28th 2010 2:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/white-house-throws-its-weight-behind-wireless-broadband-wants-5/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/white-house-throws-its-weight-behind-wireless-broadband-wants-5/
Good God, another Tea Partier nut. Where did all these fruitcakes come from all of a sudden, I miss the days of Bush and his backers already. ]]>Jun 28th 2010 2:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/white-house-throws-its-weight-behind-wireless-broadband-wants-5/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/white-house-throws-its-weight-behind-wireless-broadband-wants-5/
Glen Beck?

is that you?]]>Jun 28th 2010 2:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/white-house-throws-its-weight-behind-wireless-broadband-wants-5/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/white-house-throws-its-weight-behind-wireless-broadband-wants-5/
I support the ideas behind the Tea Party movement, but I have to say that your comment seems bizarre considering that we are talking about reallocating spectrum... Government DOES have it's legitimate uses, you know. ]]>Jun 28th 2010 2:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/white-house-throws-its-weight-behind-wireless-broadband-wants-5/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/white-house-throws-its-weight-behind-wireless-broadband-wants-5/Supporting the "IDEAS" and actually supporting a party are 2 very different things. And I can list to many examples, and how those ideas can be warped. One good example is those tea party militias (does hutari ring a bell?) or how about we abolish the civil rights act because "its big government telling businesses what to do" , or how about Ms. Angle from Nevada, well there are too many things to list about her, lol. ]]>Jun 28th 2010 11:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/white-house-throws-its-weight-behind-wireless-broadband-wants-5/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/white-house-throws-its-weight-behind-wireless-broadband-wants-5/Jun 28th 2010 1:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/white-house-throws-its-weight-behind-wireless-broadband-wants-5/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/white-house-throws-its-weight-behind-wireless-broadband-wants-5/Jun 28th 2010 1:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/white-house-throws-its-weight-behind-wireless-broadband-wants-5/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/white-house-throws-its-weight-behind-wireless-broadband-wants-5/Jun 28th 2010 2:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/white-house-throws-its-weight-behind-wireless-broadband-wants-5/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/white-house-throws-its-weight-behind-wireless-broadband-wants-5/Jun 28th 2010 1:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/white-house-throws-its-weight-behind-wireless-broadband-wants-5/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/white-house-throws-its-weight-behind-wireless-broadband-wants-5/Jun 28th 2010 1:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/white-house-throws-its-weight-behind-wireless-broadband-wants-5/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/white-house-throws-its-weight-behind-wireless-broadband-wants-5/
You must be talking about some other country, because the United States is not a "democracy." ]]>Jun 28th 2010 2:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/white-house-throws-its-weight-behind-wireless-broadband-wants-5/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/white-house-throws-its-weight-behind-wireless-broadband-wants-5/You need to realize it takes time, resources and collaboration to make sure spectrum available except if it is current unused. Organizations need to order equipment, put out RFPs, bids, schedule with vendors who may need to provide custom solutions; the list goes on.

Also, you have to consider laws that mandate how public institutions must interact to get this spectrum swap completed. There has to be transparency to avoid/limit any appearance of favoritism or discrimination, etc. When you begin to consider all these hurdles, 10 years does not seem that long.

It is good for the industry and consumers that the WH is focusing on high speed broadband as a resource that everyone can have access to. ]]>Jun 28th 2010 2:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/white-house-throws-its-weight-behind-wireless-broadband-wants-5/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/white-house-throws-its-weight-behind-wireless-broadband-wants-5/
That is the saddest thing I've ever heard...]]>Jun 28th 2010 3:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/white-house-throws-its-weight-behind-wireless-broadband-wants-5/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/28/white-house-throws-its-weight-behind-wireless-broadband-wants-5/
I guess you're in support of Dictatorships, seeing as they are the most efficient.]]>Jun 28th 2010 8:05PM