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US to double available amount of wireless communications spectrum

June 28, 2010 No comments

Rudolph Muller is the editor at MyBroadband and covers telecoms and broadband news. Rudolph comes from an academic background, but left the University of...

The Obama administration says it will nearly double the available amount of wireless communications spectrum over the next decade.

The White House says President Barack Obama will sign a presidential memorandum Monday committing the federal government to auctioning off 500 megahertz of federal and commercial spectrum.

The move is an effort to keep up with the ever-growing demand for high-speed video and data transmission to cell phones, laptops and other mobile devices.

National Economic Council director Lawrence Summers will explain the new policy in a speech at the New America Foundation, a Washington think tank.

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