FCC Votes to Open TV White Spaces for Unlicensed Use

Date Published by Dana Spiegel on November 3, 2008 under News   Tags Tags: , , ,    Comments 1 Comment »

Lost in the (understandably) overwhelming media coverage about the new President of the United States, the FCC has voted to open “white spaces” between TV channels to unlicensed use. This is a big decision that will lead to more open devices and a big push for extending wireless internet access to areas where the internet [...]


After Tests, FCC Finds White Space Devices Don’t Cause Interference

Date Published by Dana Spiegel on October 11, 2008 under News   Tags Tags: , ,    Comments Comments Off

As a follow up to the City Council Hearing on White Space Devices, the FCC has completed their tests of devices that use spectrum white spaces, and concluded that they work well with the other existing devices using the same spectrum:
A report released yesterday by theĀ Federal Communications Commissionconcluded that using empty airwaves to provide free [...]