The Federal Communications Commission moved cautiously toward creating an open wireless broadband network as it weighed the interests of cellphone carriers and other contenders.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/01/technology/01spectrum.html
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/08/01/fcc_opens_up_us_wireless_spectrum/
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