The article is almost content free (what does available frequency have to do with connecting a refrigerator) but the news is big. The FCC is about to allow unl

The article is almost content free (what does available frequency have to do with connecting a refrigerator) but the news is big. The FCC is about to allow unlicensed operation on a huge swath of desirable frequencies: http://www.betanews.com/article/FCC-set-to-allow-white-space-broadband-after-twoyear-wait/1284408785 http://www.betanews.com/article/FCC-set-to-allow-white-space... The hold-up was the rules for how a device would know exactly which frequencies were unused in the area. WiFi is crammed into a tiny sliver of undesirable frequencies -- 2.4000–2.4835 GHz -- only available because no one was using it because of all the interference from microwave ovens. But this is the entire range from 54Mhz to 698Mhz. A transmitter using this range instead of 2.4Ghz will transmit father using same power but have a lower data throughput. This is great! We have seen tons of innovation with the current tiny silver WiFi frequencies -- access to a much wider range of frequencies will allow greater power/date rate/cost trade offs.