Incase you haven’t been following in 2009 your local broadcast television channels (yes Channel 2 or 4 or 7) will go dark and in their place a new High Definition signal will be born. Because of this the spectrum these channels were broadcast on will be available. Spectrum, you see, can be used for many other purposes then just television broadcasting. It can be used for things like, wireless Internet as well.

But who will get this spectrum? The FCC has begun opening parts of it for auction by large telecommunications companies but a debate has formed around the issue. Many wish to see smaller companies have an equal share of this spectrum and so the question of how it is reallocated has become a hot button issue with tech types and geeks like me.

Tech President reports on the latest development in this debate and looks at a statement released by John Edwards. As I gather up more information from all the candidates I will put together an issues section around telecommunications.

Read Edwards letter to the FCC on the subject.