"Fortunately, the MMDS (an earlier fixed-wireless system that failed for technical reasons) frequencies aren't owned entirely by Sprint and Nextel. At least some of that bandwidth is designated as Instructional Television Fixed Service (ITFS) frequencies, which were later aggregated into MMDS. These ITFS frequencies are generally owned by school systems, state departments of education -- just the kind of organizations that often are involved with PBS stations, too.
Imagine every PBS affiliate as a WiMax broadcaster, pumping 45 megabits-per-second or more of archival material into its local service area and another 45 megabits through a regular Internet connection. All the local users are truly local and some or all of them are running Bit Torrent, which would effectively double again the effective bandwidth. The effect would be stunning. Never again could you say that there was nothing worth watching on TV."
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