The court decision should be a victory for large broadband companies such as Comcast, Time Warner, AT&T and Verizon.
Harvesting a useful amount of energy using this kind of harvester for powering a typical WSN node would require large broadband antennas.
The privacy proposal, applauded by privacy advocates, is the latest front in a battle between Wheeler and the large broadband providers such as AT&T, Comcast and Verizon over Internet regulations.
Ensconcing large broadband loan and grant programmes in the Agriculture Department threatens to drain federal money for decades into parts of the country that already get other hefty and often similarly mismanaged federal farm and development subsidies.
But neither company has more than 10% of the market, which also includes large broadband companies like AT&T and smaller, boutique shops like VitalStream.
Large broadband providers should not be allowed to slow or block content from their competitors or because the content may be controversial".
This has enabled the development of so-called Internet "fast lanes" whereby companies with large broadband requirements – like Netflix and Amazon – are able to pay for faster access to their customers.
Online video is possible on a large scale because broadband Internet connections are now in more than half of American households.
In the United States, users of the BitTorrent file-sharing service, a large generator of broadband traffic, last year challenged a cable operator, Comcast, that had blocked the service by identifying and disabling a common protocol used by BitTorrent users.
