Broadband Over Airwaves

With the convergence of media and the web the ability to get content to your audience is more and more dependant on broadband availability. Here is yet another methodology for making broadband Internet as pervasive as possible. It will be interesting to see how the FCC responds to this device. A very powerful consortium is behind this endeavor:  Microsoft, Google, Dell, Hewlett-Packard, Intel and Philips so with all these big companies trying to make this a reality we will hopefully see this come to reality some time in early 2009.

Tech Firms Push to Use TV Airwaves for Internet Cable, Phone Companies Watch Warily

By Charles Babington

Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, March 13, 2007; Page D01

“A coalition of big technology companies wants to bring high-speed Internet access to consumers in a new way: over television airwaves. Key to the project is whether a device scheduled to be delivered to federal labs today lives up to its promise.”