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Originally Posted by briand View Post
Yes. ...and potato chips won't be as salty, either.



Whether the FCC closes off analog television broadcasting or not has no bearing on WiFi access, or widespread publicly available WiFi.


The frequencies in question (for analog VHF television broadcasting) are 54.0 MHz - 72.0 MHz (analog channels 2-4), 76.0 MHz - 88.0 MHz (analog channels 5 & 6), and 174.0 MHz - 216.0 MHz (analog channels 7-13).

WiFi, in the so-called "world wide band", operates in the 2.4 GHz range (2.401 GHz - 2.473 GHz, for WiFi channels 1 thru 11 [802.11/b], for instance). I doubt any company plans on engineering any new WiFi equipment to operate in the former analog VHF television range, once it has been vacated by the television broadcasters.
I use WIFI in the most general sense of the word and not the specific A/B/G/N implementations that we currently use.