The Federal Communications Commission on Tuesday voted to open unused, unlicensed portions of the TV airwaves known as “white spaces” to deliver wireless broadband service.

Preachers on the pulpit, Guns N’ Roses and others who feared their wireless microphones would be disrupted by widespread public access to certain unused airwaves were drowned out by high-tech titans Google and Microsoft in the ruling.

The FCC approved a plan that would allow those airwaves to be used by gadgets such as cell phones and laptops connected to the Internet once that spectrum becomes available after the national transition from analog to digital TV in February.