'WHITE SPACE' FOR THE PEOPLE
New York Post / JEFF JARVIS
09-Jun-2008

June 9, 2008 -- IT'S a sad state of affairs when the interests of American consumers - and our digital fate - are being better represented by Google than by government. But that's the state of the debate over what to do with the "white spaces" between TV channels. The white spaces are the spectrum that will be freed up when TV broadcasters finish switching to wavelengths reserved for digital transmission in 2009. Google wants the spectrum liberated so any of us can freely use it, as we do now with wi-fi frequencies.

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