FCC Report Supports Use of White Spaces For Wireless

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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This is AWS, not White Spaces

[Anonymous Coward]

The FCC is proposing that the winner of a spectrum auction in the 2155 to 2180 MHz band is obliged to use it partly to offer free broadband access.
White Spaces is in the Digital TV broadcast bands, below 700 MHz.

Re:This is AWS, not White Spaces

[Anonymous Coward]

Agreed. The headline here is misleading at best (and so was the Reuters article about this). The FCC has not issued any report yet on the White Space Device tests they did back in the summer.