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WiFi 802.22 Can Cover 12,000 Square Miles

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday August 1, 2011 @05:05AM from the thats-a-lotta-sq dept.

tekgoblin writes "IEEE has just announced a new Wireless standard, 802.22, that can cover up to 12,000 square miles. The standard is actually for Wireless Regional Area Networks (or WRAN), which use the white spaces left in the TV frequency spectrum."

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Finally by Culture20 · 2011-08-01 05:09 · Score: 3, Insightful

Someone's finally planning to plan to do something with the spectrum? We didn't downgrade ourselves to digital TV for nothing?
And of course by airconswitch · 2011-08-01 05:09 · Score: 1, Insightful

It will never see widespread adoption because the unwashed masses will think it causes cancer.
1. Re:And of course by blair1q · 2011-08-01 06:02 · Score: 3, Insightful
  
  Did Broadcast Television make you sterile? Because it transmitted at power levels 100X as great as this needs, on dozens of channels at a time in the same frequency band as this.