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Tech companies and broadcasters bicker over white space

article published on 14 October, 2007

Tech companies and television networks are feuding over the use of so called "white spaces" in the television spectrum for wireless devices. White spaces are frequency ranges that are in the same range designated for television but not currently used by broadcasters. Companies ranging from Google to Microsoft to Phillips Electronics would like to use for future wireless devices. Broadcast ... [ read the full article ]

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manrod
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_ 		14. October 2007 @ 12:42 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I'm so glad I live in the U.K.
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nobrainer
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_ 		14. October 2007 @ 14:35 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by manrod:
 I'm so glad I live in the U.K.
and you think this doesn't have a knock-on on effect? them scum shape our policies more than you know!
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Bladerz05
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_ 		14. October 2007 @ 20:57 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
the fcc...another government agency that doesnt work, this doesnt suprise me at all
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nobrainer
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Originally posted by Bladerz05:
 the fcc...another government agency that doesnt work, this doesnt suprise me at all
it seems somtimes that gov bodies are purposely set up to fail to justify privatisation and swing opinions around to this! funny how most infrastructure has been sold off when it was built with tax payers money in the first place!
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_ 		15. October 2007 @ 11:26 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I think this post is fair and accurate. I've done some work with NAB, and I've seen the tests on white spaces. They indicate that broadcasting in the white spaces would interfere with bordering frequencies.

Microsoft, Google and those other companies need to produce clear and conclusive evidence that it would not disturb regular broadcasts. Until they do that, it's fair to say that broadcasting in white spaces is a bad idea.
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_ 		23. October 2007 @ 07:03 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Everything has to have some political agenda these days what a waste of time and tax payers money.
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dufas
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_ 		17. February 2008 @ 17:58 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I don't now...I had for some time a system called Sideband. I received internet data over my TV antennae. This lasted for around 3 years until the TV station stated that they didn't want to carry the signal any more. There was 3 channels that carried the signal, channels 6, 13, and 58. 13 and 58 was owned by the same company. Channel 6 was a PBS channel and they stated that they didn't want to bear the costs anymore which was odd because another organization supplied all of the needed equipment.

Downloads were faster than high speed cable which was nice for the uplink only needed an inexpensive dial-up connection. The TV/data connection was made with a cheap TV card. I could watch TV and download at the same time. I never saw any interference with the TV signal on my computer or on any of our TV sets while downloading a file or just surfing the 'net even when watching the same channel that the internet was using...

This may be more about the entertainment industry wanting to hog all the goodies and maybe later on, being able to make money for them selves instead of letting someone else make anything. The entertainment industry is known to be one of the greediest on the planet......
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