Pop and country unite to fight wireless proposal
May 14, 2008
The Grand Ole Opry and MTV may be at opposite ends of the music spectrum, but they are part of a coalition urging federal regulators to stand up to a frequency grab by Microsoft and Google that could render wireless microphones useless. In papers filed Tuesday at the Federal Communications Commission, a coalition that includes the Opry, Country Music Television, the Country Music Assn. and MTV Networks contends that allowing millions of wireless devices to use the same frequencies as wireless microphones would be a "catastrophe."
http://www.reuters.com/article/internetNews/idUSN1344353520080514
Pop and country unite to fight wireless proposal