January 19, 2001

Cell-Phone Technology Threatens to Devour Distance-Education Bandwidth

By GOLDIE BLUMENSTYK

Colleges' instructional-television services and potentially valuable spectrum licenses are at risk

Will educational television be sacrificed on the altar of the next-generation cell phone?

Educators fear that a proposal to help accommodate spiffy new Web-surfing cell phones and other hand-held devices could end up displacing instructional-television operations at more than a thousand colleges, schools, and other educational institutions.

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