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We really need to add our voices to this initiative. It is being supported by Google and will benefit all of us across the nation, particularly in Appalachia and sparsely populated areas. It will also add competition to the existing broadband providers, which will continue to drive technology. We’ve needed this for years and it makes perfect sense to utilize the unused television channel bandwidth that is so abundant, particularly in the areas that need it the most!

Hear this Google and others in the initiative: Ohio has over $200M (I believe around $280M) to invest towards bringing ubiquitous high speed Internet service to citizens across the state. This money could help to bring this to full fruition. The governor is from southern Ohio and I could help put you before key individuals to help push this along if you contact me.

I recall as a boy when there was no satellite television (except for our large satellite dish) and no cable in the majority of the region. We were lucky to get channels 3, 8, 11 and 13 which were the primary networks. All of the other channels such as 2, 4, 5, 6, 7 and so forth were all static. Nothing was being broadcast on them at all. If we let the FCC and the unenlightened “leaders” of our nation understand that these are able to be used to solve our national broadband crisis (we are very sadly very behind many other nations per capita).

This will indeed to the Wi-Fi 2.0 as they’re calling it and could make it a ubiquitous service so that communication becomes universal and information much more readily available to all people. This will of course also do interesting things to the wireless phone community and force companies such as Verizon, AT&T, Sprint/Nextel, etc. to innovate vs. stiffening and stamping out new technology.

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