Washington Internet Daily

Prospects are bright for building under an Obama White House on successes by supporters of Carterfone, net neutrality rules and open spectrum for wireless broadband, leading activists said. Groundbreaking changes probably will come Nov. 4 with the arrival of a friendly national administration and FCC white- space rules, said President Andrew Schwartzman of the Media Access Project Tuesday at an open-wireless conference of Google and the New America Foundation. "Policy makers are ready to listen," he said: "There's likely to be a very receptive environment going forward."… more

...[The National Association of Broadcasters and the Association for Maximum Service TV] will stress their support for using wireless spectrum to further rural broadband deployment through fixed systems, officials said Monday. Meanwhile, they'll push hard against plans to use the TV band for mobile broadband services -- particularly involving devices that rely on spectrum sensing to determine when they'll work...

[NAB President David Rehr] and MSTV President David Donovan kicked off the lobbying Monday with a joint letter sent… more