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UHF never has been heavily populated and this permits the FCC to sell the frequencies to more monied parties. They may not make full use of the possibilities but it’ll stir investment.

Here in Houston we have 3 area codes. We don’t have that many phones, cellphones, and fax machines, but we do have that many companies that buy blocks of contiguous phone numbers and needed that many blocks to remain competitive. Who cares that we now dial 1/3 more digits every time we dial or that every phone number begins the same now.

And digital tv programming means that the entertainment industry can now correct the erroneous (in their eyes) decision of the Supreme Court to permit home taping (Sony betamax decision) of tv shows. With a digital stream, they can block recording, put in forced expiration dates, etc. And if you circumvent those controls you are in violation of the Digitial Millenium Copyright Act.

There are more possibilities. Many of them outright suck.