Although there ’s not much tech news in the 2006 Fiscal Budget release yesterday , one interesting tidbit estimates that the FCC will auction off the 90 megahertz striation on June 29 . The dance band may go for about $ 15 billion while future auctions will conjure up up to $ 10 billion more this year .
Much of this cash is number from sales of frequencies that are n’t being used by telluric television receiver broadcasters anymore and which may end up being used in future telecom systems . Ultimately , it ’s going to take another five year for us to reap the benefit of these Modern absolute frequency .
In a related to note , $ 1.7 billion has been earmarked to subsidise digital converter boxes so the technically underprivileged wo n’t have to throw away their TVs when the U.S. expire all digital in 2009 .
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