http://www.mediahacker.org Independent multimedia reporting from Haiti since 2009 Fri, 23 Jul 2010 11:58:40 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://www.mediahacker.org/2008/11/fcc-opens-up-wireless-white-spaces/ http://www.mediahacker.org/2008/11/fcc-opens-up-wireless-white-spaces/#comments Thu, 06 Nov 2008 02:12:19 +0000 Ansel http://www.mediahacker.org/?p=190 The Federal Communications Commission, in a rare move away from further corporate media consolidation of the public airwaves, yesterday “voted to approve the unlicensed use of “white spaces” — empty airwaves between television channels — to provide high-speed Internet access nationwide.”  Via Free Press.

]]> http://www.mediahacker.org/2008/11/fcc-opens-up-wireless-white-spaces/feed/ 0 http://www.mediahacker.org/2008/10/fcc-shut-up/ http://www.mediahacker.org/2008/10/fcc-shut-up/#comments Tue, 14 Oct 2008 16:22:15 +0000 Ansel http://www.mediahacker.org/?p=97 Black Agenda Report’s Bruce Dixon says the message of FCC Commission Deborah Taylor Tate at a sham “town hall meeting” in Atlanta was “Shut up, get yourself a converter box [for the transition form analog to digital to television], and watch TV.”

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