Broadcasters prepare to battle mobile phone companies for airwaves

The New York Times
To accommodate growing mobile voice and data traffic, the FCC wants to take spectrum from “inefficient” users (meaning broadcasters) and auction it off. “Broadcasters have long been under siege, their audiences slipping away to cable television, their advertisers defecting to the Internet. Although giving up spectrum would go unnoticed by most viewers, the fight to hold onto a chunk of the airwaves could be the industry’s biggest battle in years.”