A New Deal for broadband: free, wireless

May 3rd, 2010

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Imagine you were the Chair of the Federal Communications Commission. One day someone came to you with an offer: Sell us a chunk of spectrum in the Advanced Wireless Services (AWS) band (1.9GHz to 2.1GHz).

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