White Board: Goolsbee on the National Wireless Initiative

[jimmyhoffa9]

I personally find this hilarious, as they White House doesn't use wireless technology-with the exception of their Blackberrys-because of security reasons. I understand the concept, but it still feels a little alien coming from the people who can't really use the technology.

[2TheGreenBlog]

Green idea! What about they start doing this segment using Auspens - they are non-toxic, refillable white board markers far better for the environment than expo markers.

Good to know the Chairman of Council of the Economic Advisers writes his percent signs backwards...

[irateview]

one can blame the price of gas as the root cause

[irateview]

@devilsreject111 you are a paranoid moron

[peacefrog0521]

I love listening to this guy, no matter what he says. It's like listening to a football coach, kinda like Jon Gruden. Or Al Pacino from "Any Given Sunday". They should play Dire Straits' "Brothers in Arms" in the background during his presentation. I feel like I want to run through a wall after I hear this guy.

[BlackEyedConsumer]

Listen to the Presidents full speech on this Youtube.com/watch?v=9ZkuafwQpl­o We've given high speed internet access to 65% of the US (not yet the 90% like Obama references of So. Korea -our land mass is much bigger with more areas of vast emptiness). He also says a college in Michigan set up a wireless system that spans a 30 mile radius, accomplished by 6 people in four days, then I think our massive corporations could probably accomplish most of what needs to be done on their own dime.

[BlackEyedConsumer]

More "Corporate Welfare" (APPLE quarterly revenue $26.74 billion, $6 billion in Quarterly profit. MICROSOFT profit of $5.93 billion on revenue of $19.2 billion. GOOGLE $2.2 billion quarterly profit on revenue of $7.3 billion)

Obama wants to give corporate welfare of $11 Billion to fund a Nationwide WiFi??? Also, these are the types of company's that get "Waivers" from "Healthcare Reform"??

[wtf0804]

This will open up other technologies to use the frequencies

[wullebulle123]

Goolsbee your cool

[Frapazoid]

Love Goolsbee's videos. I don't know what it is about that bald head, raspy voice and rolled up sleeves but I'll listen to him talk about anything.

[voyeurdug]

As I'm ignorant of the technology, it's easy for me to imagine another way to achieve the (nearly) same outcome would be to impose a developmental plan among current wireless providers so they can share, expand and upgrade their resources in a cooperative-yet-proprietary way under a quasi-governmental superstructure.

Next... there's no particular reason intraurban rail needs to be high-speed. Between 55 and (about) 120 mph is all that's needed.

[MakeMinePeaty]

Goolsbee!

[coolcool1994]

great words, nicely said.

Moving directly into the actions, I like that move, obama!

[jesserobertsamuel]

percent looks like this % dont draw it backwards :/

[jesserobertsamuel]

percent looks like this % dont draw it backwards :?

[vonwegen100]

Anyone who doesn't like what Goolsbee is proposing is just plain wrong.

This is the wave of the future, folks. Either get on board or get the hell outta the way.

[skrat501]

Also, before I head his name, I read Gobbles for some reason.

[MBLCommish]

Anybody who wants to go righty-rant on this is not very smart. This is an initiative that this country we have needed for a decade. We trail half of the world for wireless communications. The efficiencies brought through wireless 4G is enormous and that does not even include new opportunities.

Just a small business person with an econ background.

[ADDMOREMAPS]

@Xerayis300 exactly right we spend more on defense then the next 8 countries combined. And for what? Ultra modern billion dollar stealth aircraft to fight peasants with home made bombs strapped to their waist?

[skrat501]

@ADDMOREMAPS I giggled.

[Josephdaz1]

Watch it folks .. I sense another corrupt maneuver by you know who.

[ctmweb2]

...what do u mean with "virtually" every American..?..and who is ur "American"..?

...hope, all people will get it sometime..!?! ;-)

[eacastel]

We are so excited about this deal. Kudos! This is the kind of forward looking actions we need to transform the way we live. Please let us know how we can participate. To us this is very big news. avantiinteractive [dot] com

[bsharker]

Government is inefficient, no boundaries of spending money, and too much red tape. Stop putting private sectors our of business. STOP your war on jobs.

[trohring]

4 people don't like the internet

[RussianInquisition]

I didn't know that electrification was a word...

[tyristorium]

Very great initiative, notice that Obama annonced this projet just after internet and social media were an huge factor for the liberation of Egypt. Internet is the way of the future is gives us an alternative to get our information. This way, it gets much harder for special interest to control the way we think with their propaganda. Obama has nothing to hide, and actually benefit from the population to be well informed. Like I said, very good initiative !

[Josephdaz1]

@tyristorium If you think Obama has nothing to hide you must be living under a rock. Initially I had heard that wireless was a way around the internet kill switch. I guess they found a way to deal with that and now they're pushing wireless. More big corporations making millions perhaps billions off of hard working Americans.  Egypt's internet was shut down for a time .. I wonder who flipped the switch.

[RealityZealot]

This initiative, if completed, would lead to MASSIVE gains in GDP for our country, or any country that does it. Its all about getting more minds and ideas online :D

[EricBoisen]

I love the idea. But shouldn't we also put a big chunk of money into our main infrastructure (Roadways, waterways, etc)?

[loneshark2000]

dude, your percent sign is backwards.

[TheOthoudt]

And yet 2011 will go down in history as "The Year of Wireless Hell" (Too many iThingys)

[Aalycia26]

In response to technology advencememt, first and foremost, shouldn't the gvmnt be more concerned w/adding value to its local agencies, (i.e. PO, DMV, Public Schools). This infrastructure bid will only monopolize the industry... Whatever happened to our competitive nation?

[Sparhawk2k]

Great video but I can not keep track of where our wireless spectrum comes from and is going... I thought we auctioned off everything that was available in that last big auction. Now we've got $10B more? And more for emergencies? Where did it come from and what was it being used for? Not the analogue TV pieces, right? And why didn't we have the emergency one set up before the last big auction?

[djrazor2069]

i hope the Canadian government will follow suit

[anubis9109]

NO! NO! You're doing it wrong. You're suppose to be pioneering 5th generation wireless technology. Know why? Cuz it hasn't been settled yet. You don't innovate by doing what its already being done, you innovate by doing what isn't being done.

[mmarieden]

I love the "booyah" at the end.

[studmancory]

U.S gov can make more money sellin hemp and weed turning it in too bio fuels and other products then how much there gunna make in the internet game... just saying but 4g is a good idea

[Mrk42303]

Here in Ky the government money has been used for about 25 years to build a broadband service for the rural folks like me, I live 2 miles from 2 towers and cannot get the service. So they need a NEW set of folks working on it!

[FreedomLiberty21]

I like how the U.S. is coming into the "wireless game" YEARS after nations like South Korea, Japan, Germany, Finland, and other global powers have made investing in nationwide wireless, high speed internet, a national priority.

I mean America is losing its ability to lead the world in technology and innovation. WTF U.S.?

[Kanoki989]

@FreedomLiberty21 America already has 3G coverage in case you didn't know, he wants us to make a huge 4G network... Those countries lead in percentage of the population that has access, don't you think that is easier in a nation like Germany and South Korea? It's pretty ignorant to expect America or other countries that have a wide spread population like Russia to be able to cover such vast countries >.>'

[Sparhawk2k]

@Kanoki989 It might take more work for us to do it but that doesn't mean it's not necessary. Unless we're find with the innovation coming out of Germany and South Korea. China is certainly putting money into catching up on infrastructure right now for a reason...

[cmd07147]

So, the gov't is about to take over wireless too?

[Phaedra2696]

@cmd07147 Um, no? It's called an alternative and it's what will create more competition. Not only that, but they will auction off the alternative which will take our deficit down greatly. That sounds innovative and intelligent to me, not like a government takeover.

[smarang100]

I love these videos!! Thanks!!

[GardettoRS]

@standog2 Certainly you dont work for Wal-mart because if you did, youd prefer larger government and more regulation because it would at least protect you from abuse and tyrany from the large soulless private companies. For Profit companies and never for people.

[concept91]

Goolsbee is an absolute genius

[boss1001]

This is good, but I worry about cost.

[cmfluteguy]

This proposal does nothing for the manufacturing sector. What the hell!

[DankWin]

way to draw the % sign backwards

[hudak17]

USA USA

[jacksonwescott]

lolAngryBirds.

[standog2]

Let me get this staright. Our bankrupt government want to invest taxpayer's money to create a government led wireless internet. Why? Its best to let the private sector deal with it. Government control can only equal tyrany. We need to DOWNSIZE government, not build it up. Say no to this big government propaganda.

[howdoiquityou2006]

@GrandTheftAuto4Films they always put those beck glasses and Limbaugh hearing aid and hear and see nothing

[GeneralArrow]

@standog2 lol, fine you can live on a little house on a prairie with candle light, as a Computer Science major I can tell you this is the future.

[hofisito]

Goolsbee you're my hero! :)

[hofisito]

Thank you so much for making these videos!!!

[memama2]

2:48....& then "3rd" WE WILL HAVE SOME SEED MONEY???.....there it is - my last dime going down another obama drain hole ~

[memama2]

...another government interference that is uneeded & unwanted

[Makosis]

Wireless is not protected by net neutrality. The push for wireless over cable transmission is the push for eliminating the neutral networks we enjoy now.

[tooltalk]

@Makosis : want mo' kool-aid?

[Makosis]

@tooltalk When the FCC blocked ISPs from violating net neutrality a few months ago, an exception was made specifically for wireless networks. Obama's wireless plan makes no mention or implication that these rules will change with the push to wireless broadband to become dominant. They specifically mention mobile phone apps as an example.

Until the FCC or the Obama administration make a push for net neutrality over wireless, then this plan is bullshit. It undermines net neutrality.

[kdd1985]

@Makosis Haha, "Wireless is not protected by net neutrality." Methinks you don't really understand How the Internet Works.

[Makosis]

@kdd1985 I think you should actually go look at the FCC's DEC. 21st decision to allow exception to wireless. The only protection to wireless is outright banning websites and competing voice services such as skype. Wireless networks are not afforded the same protections right now.

[theconcretist]

So , is our country being regulated like a corporate business?

CEO "in chief" Obama ??

[ecurra19]

The problem of being left out does not give a chance to many American Citizens, but when Congress is controlled by Republicans who do not listen to constituents. How could this be a solution?

[ecurra19]

That will be great, but without SSI or SSD American citizens cannot use technology thanks to the way the law was written, which gives states control. Many MS Patients are tossed out without nothing.

[incognito9887]

Bahahaha...

Those Finnish children millionaires are gonna take over the world!!!

[ibvirginian]

Love me some Goolsbee.

[slavenations]

you assholes are always so obsessed with "leading" and "dominating."

have you ever thought of merely "participating," or possibly even "co-operating?"

who gives you the self-appointed right to lead??

oh, right. "it's god given, and that's the american way.

and if you object to that, you might be a terrorist."

fuckers.

[tooltalk]

places like sub-Sarahan Africa and Asia.

Now, also consider that fact that in US AT&T alone spent well-over $10B / year for the past 3-4 just to keep up with the growing demand coming from AT&T iPhone users. There is *no indication* that private companies *aren't investing enough*. This isn't just unique to US - in Congo still in a civil war, entrepreneurs are setting up cell phone towers in the midst of political/military disarray to meet growing demand.

[gangreneday]

this is the closest thing a president has offered to faster free HD hardcore pornography.

[tooltalk]

This is pure bull.

Firstly it's irrelevant and absurd to compare the high-speed network penetration rate in *densely* populated Asian countries vs. sparsely populated in America.

Secondly, the wireless industry worldwide has been spending & growing at rapid rate since mid-90's - all that without any subsidies or stimulus from the gov't. In fact, the growth was so rapid that the markets in most developed countries became saturated by 2000's - now most of the growth is in less developed

[memama2]

tooltalk - whatever this goob comes up with costs us mass money to gain "nothing" but TAX TAX TAX MORE TAX!......it is hidden but always in there no matter what Austie Spumantie Goolsbee pretends

[jpayne68177]

Goolsbee does a great job presenting these. Very informative and enjoyable to watch.

[earthling1960]

Sprint has 4G and a lot of spectrum assets...help us deploy more of it.