said by MrMoody :

It never ceases to amaze me how many people think Microsoft and Google are going to spend huge money building WSD towers everywhere, especially in the middle of nowhere. News flash: they aren't. NONE of you clamoring for this because you don't have broadband will EVER see a WSD tower in range. WiMAX WILL spread, it just won't happen this week.

The WIA, despite what they're saying to get approval, has NO interest in providing rural internet. They want to provide lucrative PORTABLE service in CITIES.

Name any specific rural spot you're interested to see get broadband. I'll bet you $100 right now WiMax or a wired service reaches it before WSD broadband does.

Now give specs of what you would consider minimum broadband internet including speed, cap and acceptable content/protocol restrictions. I'll bet you another $100 no WSD tower that's been in operation more than a month will be able to reliably meet that spec. Payout 1 year after the first tower provides internet.

My personal TV is safe from WSD internet because there's cable and DSL broadband available here and I'm not on a through road to have mobile devices going by all the time.

But that only holds until they start selling WSD WAPs and people discover the range they can get with them.

said by anon12 :

we will just have to wait and see wont we.

i can use a cell phone,and evdo,but choose not to use it because of 5 gig cap,and if white-space has a small cap i wont use it either.

said by MrMoody :

No, I don't want to see free TV ruined, which is what will happen.
It WILL have a low cap or other severe limits, it MUST due to bandwidth limitation. It will have less bandwidth available per customer than EVDO does. If you can get EVDO, you don't need WSDs. Beg for WiMax instead, it's better than either one and you'll get it faster. Don't destroy everyone's free TV just to get another, lamer EVDO.