{"id":199457,"date":"2007-07-26T05:21:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-26T10:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/07\/26\/good-news-on-open-access-on-the-frequency-sale\/"},"modified":"2007-07-26T05:21:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-26T10:21:00","slug":"good-news-on-open-access-on-the-frequency-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/07\/26\/good-news-on-open-access-on-the-frequency-sale\/","title":{"rendered":"Good News On Open Access on the Frequency Sale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have reports that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.siliconvalley.com\/latestheadlines\/ci_6452196\">&#8216;Open access&#8217; provision on the 700 mhz spectrum is favored by a majority of FCC commissioners<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It appears to be both of the Dems, and one Republican on the panel, the Republicans are &#8220;undecided&#8221; (translation, waiting to see who ponies up to the RNC).<\/p>\n<p>This will allow people to attach to the network with whatever equipment and using whatever software that they want, like the land lines, and the Internet.<\/p>\n<p>When one notes the explosion of innovation when AT&#038;T was told to do this in the 1970s (you could get phones that weren&#8217;t black!), this is a good thing for everyone but the Baby Bells.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have reports that the &#8216;Open access&#8217; provision on the 700 mhz spectrum is favored by a majority of FCC commissioners. It appears to be both of the Dems, and one Republican on the panel, the Republicans are &#8220;undecided&#8221; (translation, waiting to see who ponies up to the RNC). This will allow people to attach &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1067,985,1025],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communications","category-regulation","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199457"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}