said by tschmidt:I don't understand need to further reduce over the air (OTA) TV spectrum – doesn’t the whitespace initiative go a long way to address this issue? Whitespace allows unused TV channels to be used for data. UHF TV used to go all the way up to Channel 83. That was reduced to Channel 69 years ago and to Channel 51 in June of this year.
Inother words broadcasters have already given up 40% of the spectrum they had back in before 1983 when TV went up to 83. And most of the spectrum went to the wireless companies who are now asking for more. WTF have they done with the spectrum they currently own? I'd like to see some proof they've used up the nearly 200 Mhz of spectrum they managed to steal from broadcasters before they steal some more.
