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FCC chairman warns of "looming spectrum crisis"

  • From: Brian Warkoczeski
  • Date: Wed Oct 07 16:13:52 2009

FCC chairman warns of "looming spectrum crisis"

By ELLIOT SPAGAT, AP Business Writer

Oct 7, 2009

www.yahoo.com

SAN DIEGO - The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission warns of a "looming spectrum crisis" if the government fails to find new ways to ensure there is enough bandwidth for mobile devices.

Julius Genachowski said at an industry conference Wednesday in San Diego that the government is tripling the amount of spectrum available to companies. The problem is that many experts predict wireless traffic will increase 30 times, because of video and other bandwidth-heavy applications.

For more, see:

http://tech.yahoo.com/news/ap/20091007/ap_on_hi_te/us_tec_fcc_wireless_spectrum




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