Uma nova empresa de musica digital
Parece um projecto ambicioso - e que pode mudar o rumo do negocio da musica digital, a partir desta notícia da Billboard Radio Monitor:
«Silicon Valley company has asked the FCC to allow it to use—free—a band of radio spectrum for a free high-speed wireless Internet network that would cover most of the country and be supported by advertising.
M2Z Networks, formed by Silicon Valley venture capitalists, believes that its proposed venture would hasten broadband Internet use and lead to lower prices by spurring competition with cable and telephone giants that currently dominate the Internet market.
In its proposal, filed with the commission earlier this month, M2Z said it would need 20 megahertz of radio spectrum to send and receive wireless signals.
Traditionally, the fed auctions off sections of the radio spectrum to private companies to use for such transmissions as wireless Internet signals, mobile phone calls and broadcast TV.
In its 127-page filing with the FCC, The New York Times reports that M2Z said that the spectrum it sought was not scheduled for auction and could end up going to waste because it might not be easily used for other functions, like transmitting cell phone calls. But the spectrum would be enough to deliver the company's proposed free Internet access at 384 kilobits a second, about six times the speed of dial-up.
fonte: «VentureCap Firm Proposes Free Internet Using Radio Spectrum», Billboard Radio Monitor, May 23, 2006, By Chuck Taylor
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