Airwave

John, airwave is SHIT and our old radio system worked better. ❋ Inspector Gadget (2008)

The thing I hate about airwave is not being able to stop the control room in their tracks when they start blabbing, all you want to do is tell them you cant do what they want you to do because they have already doing what they asked you to do 5 minutes before. ❋ Inspector Gadget (2006)

But a given "airwave" is basically a bandwidth of radio frequencies over a given limited volume of the earth's surface. ❋ Unknown (2009)

And they're counting on the federal government to deliver the additional airwave spectrum that carriers such as AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, and T-Mobile will need to keep up with the burgeoning consumer demand for more, and faster, extra-fee wireless broadband services. ❋ Unknown (2010)

In his original argument for airwave auctions more than 50 years ago, Mr. Coase envisioned something like incentive auctions, with changes to the law so that it "should not be made impossible for one user to buy out the rights of the other users" as better uses of airwaves arise. ❋ L. Gordon Crovitz (2011)

The FCC staff also dismissed AT&T's statements that it needed T-Mobile's spectrum to build out its next-generation wireless network across most of the U.S. The company was already planning a "robust rollout" of next-generation high-speed wireless service before the T-Mobile deal was announced, and could solve some airwave constraints by shutting down older networks and moving customers to the newer services, the FCC said. ❋ Amy Schatz (2011)

He also spoke warmly about the Federal Communications Commission's new National Broadband Plan, which aims to free 500 mhz of airwave spectrum over 10 years for wireless carriers. ❋ Unknown (2010)

However, the administration's plan depends on the willingness of House Republicans to set aside billions of dollars the government would raise from airwave auctions for the new network, instead of using it for deficit reduction or to offset other federal spending. ❋ Amy Schatz (2011)

And you'll probably hear a lot more about airwave policy as the federal government prepares to coax some spectrum from one of the most potent forces in politics: television broadcasters. ❋ Unknown (2011)

My suspicion is that threshold effects (e.g. name recognition) and declining marginal value effects (e.g. airwave saturation) dominate political advertising, and therefore the main outcome of campaign finance restrictions is to strengthen establishment candidates (and Republicans, generally) over outsider candidates. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Verizon Wireless will buy airwave rights covering 28 million people from cable-television provider Cox Communications Inc. for $315 million, the companies said, the latest chapter in an unusual tie-up between the cellular giant and cable companies. ❋ Anton Troianovski (2011)

The FCC may antagonize another powerful lobby, broadcasters, if it offers an ambitious plan to get some of the airwave spectrum they control and turn it over to providers of wireless broadband services. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Last season, it was an MTV adaptation of a British show, the racy, teen sex-laden "Skins," that drew the ire of protestors, though "The Playboy Club," with its public airwave chasteness and age of consent actors, shares little in common with that show. ❋ Unknown (2011)

This government will NEVER do anything to punish this vermine properly ... all a big waste of airwave space!!! ajct ❋ Unknown (2010)

At the moment they don't have enough airwave spectrum to deliver high speed connections to lots of people at an affordable price. ❋ Unknown (2010)

White House officials are also expected to ask Congress to set aside billions of dollars in future airwave auctions for a new broadband public-safety network. ❋ Amy Schatz (2011)

LightSquared Inc. may seek to exchange its wireless airwave licenses for similar ones operated by the U.S. Department of Defense in a last-ditch effort to revive its mobile broadband service, according to people familiar with the company's plans. ❋ Greg Bensinger (2012)

Q: The Federal Communications Commission wants to redeploy some airwave spectrum for wireless broadband. ❋ Unknown (2010)

A former minister in Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's cabinet, another lawmaker and a top former bureaucrat are in jail facing charges of corruption in a 2008 allotment of airwave to carry telephone signals. ❋ Saurabh Chaturvedi (2011)

Among other things, the document calls for the FCC to claim airwave spectrum for wireless broadband and to require Internet providers to come clean about how much consumers are paying and what they're getting for their money. ❋ Unknown (2010)