[CWN-Summit] [3w] fcc votes for white space use

[Brough Turner]

Yes, it's true.
2nd Memorandum and Order
http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/index.do?document=301652

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Brough

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2010/9/25 Matthias Šubik <wirelesssummit.org at matthias.subik.de>

> Is it true?? (full text below)
> Is this the change we waited for?
> Matthias
>
>
> http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-09-23/fcc-votes-to-open-vacant-tv-airwaves-for-4-billion-wireless-market-by-u-s.html
>
> Vacant TV Airwaves Opened for $4 Billion Wireless Market by U.S.
> By Todd Shields - Sep 23, 2010
> Federal regulators cleared the way for technology companies to use vacant
> television channels for wireless data and Internet services that may be
> worth more than $4 billion a year.
>
> The Federal Communications Commission voted 5-0 today to adopt rules for
> using the airwaves, known as white spaces. Microsoft Corp.,Google Inc.,
> Hewlett-Packard Co., Motorola Inc. and Sprint Nextel Corp. are laying plans
> to exploit the airwaves, which exist in all U.S. cities.
>
> “Today we open a new platform for American innovation” that will lead to
> billions of dollars in private investment, said FCC Chairman Julius
> Genachowski.
>
> The radio waves travel in the spectrum between television channels known as
> white spaces, and like TV signals they carry far and penetrate walls. Uses
> may include wireless Internet connections, remote monitoring of industrial
> systems such as power plants, and taking over some mobile-phone traffic to
> ease sluggishness for users of devices such as Apple Inc.’s iPhone.
>
> White-space applications may generate $3.9 billion to $7.3 billion in
> economic value each year, according to a September 2009 study funded by
> Microsoft and written by Richard Thanki, a London-based analyst with
> Perspective Associates.
>
> New York and Los Angeles, the nation’s two biggest media markets with
> multiple TV stations, may have few vacant channels for the devices,
> according to an FCC fact sheet. Most markets have five or more empty
> channels.
>
> Users of the white-space airwaves won’t need an FCC license, leaving them
> free to create devices for applications yet to be developed, Genachowski
> said in an interview before the vote.
>
> Broadcaster Objections
>
> The FCC in 2008 approved white-space use over objections of television
> broadcasters who said their signals might be disrupted. The agency left
> final rules on technical standards for later, and these are the matters that
> came to a vote today.
>
> The FCC also was to vote on easing rules for schools and libraries to use
> federal funds for high-speed Internet connections. Schools and libraries
> could use the funds to connect to networks or to fiber that has been
> installed nearby and is ready to carry Internet service, Genachowski said in
> a Sept. 21 speech.
>
> AT&T Inc. opposed the proposal, saying Congress intended subsidies to spent
> on communications providers and not directly on fiber.
>
> To contact the reporter on this story: Todd Shields in Washington at
> tshields3 at bloomberg.net
>
> To contact the editor responsible for this story: Larry Liebert at
> lliebert at bloomberg.net.
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