This is very interesting. I look forward to see what's done with this.

 

does this mean fast internet even out in the boonies? one can only hope...

 

I am surprised comcast and all the other companies like that didn't try and stop this or maybe they are planning on doing it in the furture.

 

"the frequencies allow signals to travel faster"

This statement is rubbish, pure rubbish.

Radio waves at any frequency travel at 186000 miles per second.. period.

 

Why stop it when you can charge extra for super wifi? You have to think like a business man, lol.

 

It's Comcastic!!!...bastards...

 

That was my first thought as well. But I suspect they meant something analogous to like dial up, the first modems were really slow, but on the same phone lines many years later people were getting 56.6ish speeds. So even though the technology in the lines didn't really change the speeds you could achieve did. Perhaps there is some benefit in the frequencies they are going to release that allow faster data transfer speeds.

 

2 questions. (I know nothing about this stuff)
What if someone needs that space back?
Why can't there be more frequencies?

 

It seems that statement was factually wrong, or perhaps a typo on Emil's part, which I have now corrected.

"Super Wi-Fi" will be all about covering much larger distances, think kilometers, albeit at diminished speeds (10-20 mbps) compared to current Wi-Fi peaks.

 

Get ready for a flood of new advertising sales-pitches by every ISP / TV service and more !