White Space Plan Would Reuse TV Spectrum

An anonymous reader writes "A collection of companies including Microsoft, Google and Motorola are teaming up for a new white space wireless network plan. The White Spaces Database Group, as it will be known, plans on formulating a plan to create, govern and maintain a wireless broadband network on abandoned analog television spectrum. When the spectrum is finally vacated in June, the group hopes that system in place which will allow for the creation of an open wireless broadband network which will be accessible by any device. The FCC officially approved keeping the spectrum open back in November, despite staunch opposition from telco firms."

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[tjstork]

Any time Microsoft and Google decide to partner on something, you know the rest of us are just going to get screwed. Let's make these two giants work for us by competing against each other. While some may want a bipartisan, colluding government, it is only madness to want the same from corporations!