(iverson's) currentbuzz: Silicon Valley Moneymen Make a Play for Airwaves

powerful venture capitalists and technology investors have joined an investment group that is preparing to challenge cellphone carriers, cable and satellite companies for valuable radio spectrum that will be freed when television broadcasters convert to digital signals.

Source: nytimes.com

This is an interesting move. This issue of the FCC selling off my (an your -- if you are an American tax-payer or citizen) property instead of leasing it or using it wisely to benefit humankind irritates me generally. In this move, it is possible that a blow might be struck for transparency in media. You know, that "common carrier" idea of the media "tubes" or "pipes," where the method by which media information and content is brought from its creator to its user is not held by a conglomerate that produces media content?

I have to study the proposal, and I suggest you do the same. How this chunk of bandwidth is allocated will have an impact on all of us.