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Wireless Internet approved: Federal regulators approved a plan they hope will offer schools, hospitals and businesses a potentially cheaper way to connect to the Internet. The Federal Communications Commission set aside a large chunk of radio frequencies for free and unlicensed high-speed communication over short distances. The action leaves it to companies to develop devices to use these frequencies to enable wireless links over a range of about one to three miles. Since the frequencies would be unlicensed, users would not have to pay a company for service, as users of cellular phones do. Instead these frequencies would be treated like those used to operate remote garage door openers.