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Independent Broadcast TV is Dying for 5G
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Looks like the Independent broadcast Frequencies are getting bought up to sell to huge communication companies for 5G in placement. This means the little grassroots stations will have little or no say in future political or social issues. American is becoming a controlled state just like Red China but in more subtle ways. It will be a huge loss to gain attention for the little guys believe it or not. Google controls YouTube now with twitter and facebook having their own censorship as well. Hell, you can't even have a Betty Ross US Flag without censorship now!
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Michael Dell Could Make Billions Off TV Stations You Don?t Watch
https://fortune.com/2016/01/13/michael-dell-spectrum-auction/
While a billionaire buying up hardly watched TV stations may sound odd, there?s a plausible reason for those investments: All of the stations own potentially valuable broadcast spectrum. That broadcast spectrum has been tapped by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to be repurposed to enhance wireless network reliability and speeds. Collectively, Dell?s investments could see him tally up to $4 billion on his $80 million investment.
The way Dell?s investment team could ultimately get to $4 billion is complicated, to say the least.
Starting in March, the FCC will hold the first-ever ?incentive auction.? The auction will allow TV station owners who hold rights to spectrum that could otherwise be used for wireless networks to put that spectrum up for auction. Wireless companies, including Verizon (VZ), AT&T (T), Sprint (S), and T-Mobile (TMUS), among others, will then have the ability to buy that spectrum at auction to enhance their own networks. According to data obtained by Fortune from the FCC, opening bid prices on those auctions rise well into the hundreds of millions of dollars.
serf
Michael Dell Could Make Billions Off TV Stations You Don?t Watch
https://fortune.com/2016/01/13/michael-dell-spectrum-auction/
While a billionaire buying up hardly watched TV stations may sound odd, there?s a plausible reason for those investments: All of the stations own potentially valuable broadcast spectrum. That broadcast spectrum has been tapped by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to be repurposed to enhance wireless network reliability and speeds. Collectively, Dell?s investments could see him tally up to $4 billion on his $80 million investment.
The way Dell?s investment team could ultimately get to $4 billion is complicated, to say the least.
Starting in March, the FCC will hold the first-ever ?incentive auction.? The auction will allow TV station owners who hold rights to spectrum that could otherwise be used for wireless networks to put that spectrum up for auction. Wireless companies, including Verizon (VZ), AT&T (T), Sprint (S), and T-Mobile (TMUS), among others, will then have the ability to buy that spectrum at auction to enhance their own networks. According to data obtained by Fortune from the FCC, opening bid prices on those auctions rise well into the hundreds of millions of dollars.
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with everything a million times bigger.
the rich get richer...
But back to thread theme that Congress or it's acting government entity has declared all broadcast network stations use 1-36 positions of frequencies only and if you use any other number in your city or town it's a virtual station only mimicking that position. All other frequencies have been taken already.
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