Dolly loses white spaces battle
Country and western singer Dolly Parton has lost her battle to keep internet service providers out of the spectrum used to buffer commercial TV and radio transmissions – the so called ‘white spaces’....
View ArticleUK looking at white space broadband
UK looking at white space broadband UK communications regulator Ofcom is taking a lead from the US and examining the potential of rolling out wireless broadband technology into the unoccupied radio...
View ArticleFCC moves to open up ‘white spaces
US regulator the FCC has taken the first steps to opening up the vacant airwaves between TV channels, so called ‘white spaces’. This is the first significant block of spectrum made available for...
View ArticleMicrosoft leads consortium on using TV ‘white spaces’ for Wi-Fi
A consortium of companies led by Microsoft and including the BBC, Nokia, BSkyB and Samsung, has begun a test program in Cambridge, England to discover if un-required TV spectrum could be reused to...
View ArticleGoogle, Carlson launch white space trial in South Africa
Google has long been interested in white spaces US white space specialist Carlson Wireless has teamed up with Google to launch the first wireless broadband trial using TV white space in South Africa....
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