First Name: Stephen
Current Event Posting Number: 1
Topic: Technology and Science
Title: FCC heralds a new era of 'super Wi-Fi'
Writer: John D. Sutter
Publication Name: CNN
Date of Publication: September 15th, 2010
Words: 966
A. Super Wi-Fi is or what the US Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski calls it “Wi-Fi on steroids”. This new type of Wi-Fi may spark a new technological revolution in the US. It is capable of allowing Wi-Fi signals to travel much larger distances, go through walls and carry more information. Currently the FCC is already testing the concept of super Wi-Fi in different places. The commission says they will bring broadband internet to a school in rural Claudeville, Virginia and add a public Wi-Fi network in Wilmington, North Carolina using super Wi-Fi. By freeing up the Wi-Fi spectrum, we can use the internet at much faster speeds and at further distances from hotspots. It is said that using five or so super Wi-Fi hotspots can provide internet service to a small downtown area. However, it will take two or more years before it is available for consumers.
B. In conclusion, the FCC is freeing up the Wi-Fi spectrum to create super Wi-Fi which is capable of providing internet access to places that don’t usually receive Wi-Fi. The super Wi-Fi is capable of going through walls; travels longer distances and transmit larger amounts of information at faster speeds. The FCC says that super Wi-Fi can start a new technological revolution in the near future.
C. In my opinion, I believe that super Wi-Fi can be beneficial to everyone because now we are able to communicate over the internet with efficiency. Also it can provide internet to places that don’t have it like Africa. I believe the super Wi-Fi has great potential to be the greatest invention in the next few years.
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ReplyDeletei think it would be great if we had super wifi and it was avalible to the public. people using technology on their portable devices and rushing to places is not uncommon. i think we free wifi in mt. view. but of coarse they would have to take percautions against hackers.
ReplyDeleteoverall cool idea
Very interesting how the technology of wifi has greatly increased. Hopefully it will become available to the public in sooner years to come.
ReplyDeleteI find it very interesting that the Federal Communications Commission is giving the public a free wifi service. No more buying cables or expensive routers and modems just so you could get your crummy internet to work. The new WIFI would erase all of that and make our lives way easier. It would be very beneficial for people to gain access to this new public WIFI.
ReplyDeleteI think it is interesting and also exciting how the internet just keeps getting faster and faster. I also like how they are trying to put faster internet in schools to make school life more efficient.
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