USA Today reported on Tuesday that the FCC will vote on nationwide, free broadband on Dec. 18 – the last FCC meeting before President-Elect Obama takes office.
If it passes, it will end two years of debates and free broadband could be a reality within a year.
How would it work? The FCC will auction off a chunk of currently idle airwaves. The auction winner must use 25 percent of those airwaves to provide free broadband, but can also provide faster speeds for a price.
The FCC would put some restrictions on the auction winner, including an adult content filter. You can remove the filter if you prove you are over age 18.
Giving every American free access to high-speed Internet would revolutionize information sharing and begin to close the technology gap between rich and poor, rural and (sub)urban.
Also, I could G-chat on road trips.
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This would also be the nail in the coffin for Wi-MAX, I think, which is one of the only things that Sprint has going for it right now.