Obama to take advantage of advances in wireless

[onehandle]

Source: AP



WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House says President Barack Obama is taking advantage of advances in the wireless industry to help create jobs.

Obama issued a presidential memorandum Friday directing federal agencies to be more efficient in their use of radio spectrum and to make more capacity available to satisfy the growing demand for broadband Internet.

There's also a $100 million investment in spectrum-sharing and advanced communications. And a "Spectrum Technology Day" is being planned to call attention to advances in spectrum-sharing and other innovations to satisfy demand.

The White House says the announcements build on a program Obama launched recently to bring high-speed digital connections to practically all U.S. students to improve teaching and learning.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/obama-advantage-advances-wireless-100525688.html

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President Obama at his Daily Briefing with his iPad, given to him by Steve Jobs:

[Egalitarian Thug]

1. And we'll still be paying 10X more for half the service...

[forestpath]

2. If he cared about jobs he would stop pushing the TPP.

[agent46]

3. This isn't a push for job creation

It's marketing and the president is promoting new products for the tech corporations.

Shift your frame of reference and you'll see how this whole thing with government and private corporations works now. They used to call it fascism. I'm sure there's a newspeak word for it now though.

[Myrina]

4. LMFAO at that headline ...

... in light of the last week's revelations about NSA/Booz/PRISM ...

Sorry, couldn't help it.

[cosmicone]

5. President Obama may walk on water,

singlehandedly save 100 babies from a raging fire, cure cancer and reverse global warming .... but some on DU will always find it negative.

[Igel]

6. And the reverse.

In this case he's telling government to stop hogging spectrum and reduce the regs that restrict access to parts of the spectrum.

He's not creating new spectrum (that's been there straight along). He's not creating the technology to use the spectrum. He's not even making it easier to manufacture the technology.

He's just telling government to get out of the way. He's partially fixing a problem that, well, his branch is.

This is a good thing, in the sense that curing cancer (stopping a disease), reversing climate change (restoring equilibrium), saving babies from a fire (preserving their lives) are good things--they stop a bad thing. And it's not a thing that gets you much credit if the cause of the problem is the organization you're in charge of.