Broadcasters on board with FCC National Broadband Plan

News by Todd Haselton on Tuesday March 16, 2010.

Yesterday the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) released details on its National Broadband Plan, which it hopes will help deliver affordable broadband to over 98 million Americans, improve our broadband infrastructure overall, and spur competition in the market.

Part of the plan requests and additional 500MHz of wireless spectrum by 2020, and 300MHz in the next three years, some of which would need to come from American broadcasting companies. Despite predictions that broadcasting networks would be against giving up spectrum, some are on board, Reuters reports. MORE