Markoff's got a good general piece in the NYT about WiFi, and he ends with this kicker:
Moreover, many Silicon Valley entrepreneurs in the digital wireless world warn that powerful interests in the wired Internet business are unlikely to meekly accept such a challenge to the status quo.
Traditional owners of the airwaves — from radio and television station owners to companies like Motorola that provide special-purpose communications systems — may bitterly resist giving up some of their existing spectrum or being subjected to potential interference from competing users. Veterans of the policy battles agree.
"In their candid moments everybody at the F.C.C. will tell you they are being pressured quite severely by various forces that are quite concerned about Wi-Fi," said Reed E. Hundt, a former chairman of the F.C.C. "They're worried that it is really a trenching machine that will uproot the entrenched forces."
(via 802.11b Networking News)
