| Author | Message | < Hardware general ~ FCC Report Supports Use of White Spaces For Wireless | | tech | | Posted: Sun Oct 12, 2008 5:09 pm Post subject: FCC Report Supports Use of White Spaces For Wireless | | | | Site Admin Joined: 19 Sep 2006 Posts: 42214 | | After the FCC's tests mentioned early last month, andy1307 submits word of the FCC's report (released Friday), writing that "the major telcos disagree with the FCC's report that concluded that using white spaces to provide free wireless internet 'would not cause major interference with other services. ... The FCC concluded that sufficient technical protections would prevent major problems.' FCC chairman Kevin Martin's proposal is to auction off the spectrum, with some rules attached. 'Some of the spectrum would be used for free Internet service, which would have content filters to block material considered inappropriate for children.'" 
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