Gizmodo Australia » spectrum auction http://www.gizmodo.com.au the Gadget Guide | Technology and consumer electronics news and reviews Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:51:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 FCC Says Free Wireless Plans Won’t Screw Up T-Mobile’s 3G http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2008/10/fcc_says_free_wireless_plans_wont_screw_up_tmobiles_3g-2/ http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2008/10/fcc_says_free_wireless_plans_wont_screw_up_tmobiles_3g-2/#comments Tue, 14 Oct 2008 06:00:00 +0000 Gizmodo US Edition http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2008/10/fcc_says_free_wireless_plans_wont_screw_up_tmobiles_3g-2.html Trying to add a silver lining to your undoubtedly dismal economic future, the FCC has struck down T-Mobile’s complaints that the agency’s scheme to offer free wireless to lower-income peoples will interfere with established 3G networks. In an engineering report, the agency claimed that there would be no “significant risk of harmful interference.”

That’s a good thing should this plan, which would offer downstream speeds of 768kbps for free to half the U.S. within the first four years, and 95% in the next six, actually come to fruition. T-Mobile and its ilk have threatened to sue if the FCC’s action impairs their ability to use the spectrums they purchased in any way.

Will it ever be though? I mean, who does the FCC think is going to buy something with this many expensive restrictions on it in the first place? [Mobile Tech Today]

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