An article in Popular Mechanics estimates the cost of the upcoming transition to digital TV in the US: Digital Television Transition Funding – Do Americans Have a Right to TV?
The federal government is spending about $1.5 billion of taxpayer’s money on education and incentives. Is this really how we want to be spending money from the sale of public spectrum?
Just for comparison, the proposed 2009 federal budget for adult literacy education is just $575 million.