GNG News Guy
12-27-2007, 10:40 AM
The National Association of Broadcasters is continuing their campaign against a plan by Google, Microsoft, Dell and others to use the nation's white space spectrum to provide inexpensive broadband access. Having already likened the idea to the spreading of germs (http://www.thegng.org/shownews/90191), broadcasters hint to the Chicago Tribune (http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/chi-wed_whitespacedec26,0,1588050.story?coll=chi_busin ess_mezz) that using unlicensed gear on vacant TV channels could disrupt nearby hospital equipment.
The idea is supposed to be that any gear using this vacated spectrum should be able to detect and avoid nearby transmissions, though the prototype submitted by Microsoft to the FCC failed to do so (http://www.thegng.org/shownews/86338). Still, Microsoft insists they have a working model they'll submit for new testing next month, and proponents of the idea hope to have FCC rules in place by next Spring.
read comment(s) (http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/NAB-Keeps-Fighting-White-Space-Broadband-90520)
The idea is supposed to be that any gear using this vacated spectrum should be able to detect and avoid nearby transmissions, though the prototype submitted by Microsoft to the FCC failed to do so (http://www.thegng.org/shownews/86338). Still, Microsoft insists they have a working model they'll submit for new testing next month, and proponents of the idea hope to have FCC rules in place by next Spring.
read comment(s) (http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/NAB-Keeps-Fighting-White-Space-Broadband-90520)