The FCC's Misguided Spectrum Quest

Hobbling TV broadcasters to favor wireless broadband is bad news for fans of a bigger, faster Internet.

  • By HOLMAN W. JENKINS, JR.

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BY HOLMAN W. JENKINS, JR.

He wasn't Punxsutawney Phil, but Julius Genachowski poked his head out of the Federal Communications Commission recently and foreshadowed a period of cold relations between his agency and TV broadcasters. What does this have to do with Cisco's introduction yesterday of a super-duper new router for the age of Internet video? You're about to find out.

Mr. Genachowski put his voice behind a staff plan to coax broadcasters to hand over some of their airwaves, now employed sending TV signals to the nation's dwindling audience of rabbit-ear viewers, to meet exploding demand for wireless broadband—"voluntarily," he says.

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