UNWANTED ATTENTION; M2Z's plan to offer broadband solicits flurry of negative reactions.(News)

RCR Wireless News, March, 2007

Byline: JEFFREY SILVA

For the past eight months, M2Z Networks Inc. stood alone behind a plan

that might actually aid President Bush's quest for universal and affordable broadband service in the United States. Now it suddenly has company.

It comes in the form of petitions to deny M2Z's application from the cellular and wireless broadband industries and from a handful of seemingly me-too applications to deliver free broadband service nationwide in the 2155-2175 MHz band. It is now a free-for-all, a somewhat predictable phenomenon that seems to materialize when an unconventional spectrum proposal is put before federal regulators and the wireless telecom establishment. As soon as it happens, an initiative's chances of success almost...

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