{"id":9023,"date":"2013-01-09T16:35:52","date_gmt":"2013-01-09T22:35:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=9023"},"modified":"2013-01-09T16:35:52","modified_gmt":"2013-01-09T22:35:52","slug":"govt-will-open-up-radio-spectrum-to-improve-wi-fi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=9023","title":{"rendered":"Gov\u2019t will open up radio spectrum to improve Wi-Fi"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The Wi-Fi traffic jam was predictable, just as it&#8217;s predictable that there will be a mobile spectrum crunch, he said.\u00a0195 MHz of new spectrum will be opened up, all in the 5 GHz band, which has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macworld.com\/article\/1140685\/wifi_spectrumbands.html\">less interference<\/a> but shorter ranges than the 2.4 GHz band. Opening up more spectrum has the potential to alleviate Internet-use congestion, particularly at crowded places like public Wi-Fi access points.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2013\/01\/fccs-genachowski-govt-will-open-up-radio-spectrum-to-improve-wi-fi\/\">FCC\u2019s Genachowski: Gov\u2019t will open up radio spectrum to improve Wi-Fi | Ars Technica<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Wi-Fi traffic jam was predictable, just as it&#8217;s predictable that there will be a mobile spectrum crunch, he said.\u00a0195 MHz of new spectrum will be opened up, all in the 5 GHz band, which has less interference but shorter &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=9023\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[110],"tags":[465,1028,78],"class_list":["post-9023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-networking","tag-access-point","tag-radio-spectrum","tag-wifi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9023\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}