White House Backs FCC's Plan to Increase Available Wireless Spectrum

Wireless spectrum is sort of a tricky concept to wrap one's head around. Gizmodo's Matt Buchanan lays it out nicely in a highway metaphor:

To radically simplify it, an easy way to think about spectrum is kind of like a highway, divided into lanes. In the US, the FCC designates who and what's allowed to travel in each lane. (Check out the FCC's spectrum dashboard to see who owns what spectrum where.) The FCC typically divides the spectrum into "blocks" (stick with the mixed metaphor here) that ...