Megachurch pastor criticizes white space broadband proposals

Joel Osteen presides over a 16,000 seat church in Houston and now has weighed in on the "white space" debate. He's written Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin warning of the alleged threat to wireless mics posed by unlicensed applications that tap into temporarily unused TV channels. Osteen said that, should the Commission "turn a blind eye" to interference concerns, the agency "will cause immeasurable damage" to Lakewood Church's ability to minister. "Static and audio dropouts due to interference from an unlicensed mobile wireless device would create a devastating distraction," he wrote.