Does this take into consideration other existing users of that space, such as wireless microphone users? Lots of users out there with investments that are small compared to a broadcaster, but large compared to most individuals.
--Don Ellis On Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 7:23 PM, N Moon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am passing this along from MAIN.nc.us an organization involved with > providing broadband access to rural areas in western North Carolina and > eastern Tennessee. > > Dear Friends: > > The TV broadcasters are mounting a furious campaign to block the FCC > vote next week on unlicensed use of the "white spaces" spectrum to > solve the rural broadband problem. > > WE NEED YOUR HELP!! If the broadcasters succeed in blocking the FCC > vote, now scheduled for Nov. 4, this issue is kicked to the new FCC > under a new administration -- and the process starts all over again! > > The broadcasters have delayed this rulemaking for almost SIX YEARS! > We can't let them delay a rural broadband solution any longer! > > The FCC's engineers reviewed the wireless technology and recommended > approval for unlicensed use of the "white spaces" for rural broadband. > This is not rocket science. The following link, for those of you > with a technical bent, amply shows the how cautious the FCC > was in its technical review. > http://main.nc.us/whitespaces/files/good-enough-for-the-pentagon.pdf > > This isn't about technology. It's about the broadcasters protecting > their turf -- our public airwaves. > > Since 1934, radio and TV broadcasters have had free use of the > public airwaves. And now that we, the public, want to use our own > airwaves to solve the rural broadband problem, the broadcasters go > ballistic! > > These huge broadcast companies are the creation of Wall Street, and > the same corruption and greed that we have seen with the financial > meltdown is furiously at work today on Capitol Hill. > > Please email and call each Commissioner of the FCC below. Thank > them for their due diligence, and request that they NOT cave-in to > the broadcasters' political muscle. LET THE FCC VOTE!! Please > email and call. > > Please email: > > Chairman Kevin J. Martin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > (202) 418-1000 > > Commissioner Michael J. Copps: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > (202) 418-2000 > > Commissioner Jonathan S. Adelstein: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > (202) 418-2300 > > Commissioner Deborah Taylor Tate: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > (202) 418-2500 > > Commissioner Robert McDowell: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > (202) 418-2200 > > Also, you can find out more about this issue at: > > http://www.main.nc.us/whitespaces > > We can win this, and solve our rural broadband problem!! > > Wally Bowen > Executive Director > > Mountain Area Information Network > 34 Wall Street, Suite 407 > Asheville, NC 28801 > local: 828-255-0182 ext 109 > tollfree: 866-962-6246 > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Central West End Linux Users Group (via Google Groups) Main page: http://www.cwelug.org To post: [email protected] To subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] More options: http://groups.google.com/group/cwelug -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
