Broadband and Cheap(er) Phones on Airplanes

Coming shortly to an airplane near you : Fast Internet connections and humble - cost phone armed service . That ’s right , there ’s a good chance you wo n’t have to watch that terrible picture starring Queen Latifah on your next thwartwise - country flight . Instead , you ’ll be able-bodied to surf the vane using broadband — or even make habit of those whacky expensive phones always lay away on the can in front of you . How is this potential , you may enquire ? Because beginning May 10th , US regulator are be after to auction off the airwaves now used by those unintelligent airplane headphone ( now operated by a Verizon Communications unit ) for wireless broadband and other data services . Verizon is actually planning to call in the sale , along with what I reckon is every other service provider . The FCC is drop out a $ 5 million physical body as the minimum of what the auction would have to bring in to be completed — and with the amount of cash these guy draw from us every month , I ca n’t imagine that will be too difficult to do .

The FCC set up scenario for splitting the airwaves and will go with whichever one take in the highest bids . The possibilities admit two overlapping licenses for 3 megahertz ( Mhz ) of airwaves , or one 3 megahertz single license and another 1 Mhz undivided license .

FCC Commissioner Michael Copps , a Democrat , expressed concern in 2004 that the way the government agency has set up the licenses could lead to a single supplier , a monopoly that could feed on consumer .

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Under the FCC ’s formula , Verizon has a nonrenewable five - year licence to operate its current airborne service , and after the auction is completed , the caller would be limited to using 1 MHz of the airwaves .

Here ’s to hop they can cut a mint without bed us too sorry .

FCC sets airwaves sales event for cyberspace on planes[Reuters ]

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