US Considers Some Free Wireless Broadband Service 111
gollum123 writes "US regulators may dedicate spectrum to free wireless Internet service for some Americans to increase affordable broadband service nationwide, the Federal Communications Commission said on Tuesday. The FCC provided few details about how it would carry out such a plan and who would qualify, but will make a recommendation under the National Broadband Plan set for release next week. The agency will determine details later. One way of making broadband more affordable is to 'consider use of spectrum for a free or a very low-cost wireless broadband service,' the FCC said in a statement." Nobody has more than a couple of paragraphs on this story. None of the press coverage mentions the obvious likelihood that any such free network would be heavily filtered, censored, and monitored.
Re:heh (Score:5, Funny)
Well it's obvious the whole purpose of this is to ga*NO CARRIER*
Re:heh (Score:3, Funny)
First comes government cheese.
Yeah really. I'd much prefer government Twinkies.
Re:heh (Score:3, Funny)
Fuck YOU and fuck the people that modded you up.
I am so sick of people saying that. The government does tens of thousands of projects every year, within budget and of incredibly high quality.