Guns N' Roses May Get Wired After Wi-Fi Ruling

While the rest of us will get to experience greater access to Wi-Fi connections, could rock bands like Gun’s N’ Roses find themselves tangled in wires?

The Federal Communications Commission has announced that it is opening up pubic access to white space signals for use by devices such as cell phones and laptops or just about anything that can be connected to the Internet.

White spaces are the unused parts of the broadcast spectrum.  You may want to call them the in between TV channel signals.

The only users of the white space signals today are preachers, salad shooter pitchmen, and musicians who use wireless microphones.

All these folks, including the likes of Dolly Parton, told the FCC that if public access to the white space spectrum were granted, then interference will occur with their wireless microphones and instrument connections.

Fortunately for the public, the FCC decided that the public interest would be better served with increased Wi-Fi access over the need for rock bands to go wireless.

I don’t know a lot about how TV broadcast signals are engineered, but I do know that it is very possible to separate network traffic over those connections.

This should prevent signal interference issues.

Plus, new technology that will be created may possibly prevent the signal bleed through they already get.

I was at a concert once where trucker Bob and Trucker Betty’s CB conversation bled through a guitar solo.

It was hilarious!

There are plenty of brilliant engineers out there that will figure out how to assign network addresses to each microphone, instrument and headsets and let the public have greater access to the Internet from anywhere.

Even without any new technology developments, testing has already shown there is no significant interference from Wi-Fi devices.

So, don’t worry Gun N’ Roses, you will still be able to jump off a stack of speakers without worry of being hung by a microphone cord.