said by dmeyer:[spoiler]
This doesn't make sense. They don't need a 1ghz plant to provide 100+ HD channels and 200+ SD channels. The money would be better spent providing cheap set top digital converters for customers and cutting back the analog channel count to, say, 16 or so. Besides, the government is providing two $40 coupons per household to upgrade to digital converters, right?
They are also using the bandwidth for phone and faster internet. The digital converter coupons that will be avalable are for over the OTA viewers who don't want cable. They wll not work with cable.