US entertainers and entertainment venues will have to find a new frequency for their wireless microphones before middle of June 2010 as the US Federal Communications Commission ordered the spectrum to be made available to new communication technologies and public safety institutions. Many of the entertainment conglomerates expected the decision even though they protested it and have started moving over to alternative frequencies which is most cases will probably require new equipment.

One has to applaud the forward thinking nature of the F.C.C. as this decision to temporarily inconvenience some to liberate frequency for a better use by others is the way it should be done in a proper regulatory environment flexible enough to adapt to the future. I wish ICASA would exhibit more of this kind of behavior and also be more open. Art Brodsky, a spokesman for Public Knowledge, a consumer advocacy group in the United States, said the F.C.C.’s order was important because the spectrum now vacated could be used by entrepreneurs seeking to come up with new wireless services. “By moving the wireless microphones out of their current spectrum, it clears the way for a whole new generation of wireless services,” he said.

In this case nobody has to stop singing; they just need to start using new wireless microphones from June 12, 2010 in order to be legal and whilst doing so entertain America (and the world by default as microphone and new wireless technologies tend to filter throughout the globe) into a new communications era where choice is an even bigger blessing.