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White Space Wireless Broadband Trial In UK Is a Success
Mark.JUK writes "A major multinational ten month long trial of new 'White Space' technology (IEEE 802.22) in the United Kingdom, which uses the spare radio spectrum that exists between Digital Terrestrial TV (DTV) channels to deliver wireless internet access services over a wide area, has officially completed today and been deemed 'successful.' The technology, if approved, could one day help to bring faster broadband services to both isolated rural and urban areas. The TV White Spaces Consortium, which comprises 17 international and UK technology and media companies (BT, Microsoft, BBC, Alcatel-Lucent etc.), has now recommended that the UK regulator, Ofcom, complete its development of the 'enabling regulatory framework' (i.e. Draft Statutory Instrument) in a 'manner that protects licensees' from 'harmful' interference and encourages innovation and deployment."
to the brosdband or DTV signals?
Looks like it's time to upgrade my tinfoil hat!
to the brosdband or DTV signals?
Since, after the recent two rounds of DTB retuning in the UK, my digital TV has stopped being able to find any signals, introducing more into the spectrum can't make it any worse for me :-|
With frequencies being grabbed left, right and center, for whatever reason, I wonder how much frequencies are left out there for future use?
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Yeah the internet gets developed and becomes a perfectly acceptable way of communicating to pretty much anywhere in the world. Then the $e£$£e step in and all of sudden you need wireless, sure it has its benefits... But to the average Joe on the street why would I want to use my laptop in the garden! I live in the UK, it'd only get wet and break! (Also; I don't have a laptop, another story!)
Apart from the obvious, really obvious benefits, i.e. no wires, its a pretty rubbish way of getting a connection. Its advertised(can you see where im going with this?) as a way to be more free to do things where ever you are. All I can see it as is just another way to get us to put our hands in our pockets but bringing no actual perceived benefit to the end user, except the supposed benefits of freedom, more time to do stuff (what!) sold to us by the big Telcos.
which uses the spare radio spectrum that exists between Digital Terrestrial TV (DTV) channels
Spend a moment, dear reader, thinking about how much bandwidth that is - contrast with 802.11 if you will - and divide it among the number of users.
has now recommended that the UK regulator, Ofcom, complete its development of the 'enabling regulatory framework' (i.e. Draft Statutory Instrument) in a 'manner that protects licensees' from 'harmful' interference and encourages innovation and deployment."
Ofcom's responsibility, turning the function of the Radiocommunications Agency on its head, is basically to protect big business from anyone who tries to behave responsibly with the spectrum, ignoring abusers. The first step of such businesses is to go whining to Ofcom for some secondary legislation (i.e. government edict with no Parliamentary scrutiny) to protect their abuse.
One day? It looks like its happening now:
http://www.neul.com/neul-pr-250412.php
The summary means "between" in the physical sense -- when there is a physical space between the coverage area of DTV stations. Read a little about IEEE 802.22. (Maybe the second sentence in Wikipedia will help: "The development of the IEEE 802.22 WRAN standard is aimed at using cognitive radio (CR) techniques to allow sharing of geographically unused spectrum allocated to the Television Broadcast Service. . . .") An 802.22 signal has a bandwidth of 6, 7, or 8 MHz, depending on the bandwidth of the television channels used in the relevant country: It's not a narrow, "guardband" type of signal shoved in between the channels somehow.
Regardless, your question, "Where there isn't enough market to put a TV station, is there enough market for a broadband station?" to me remains the question to be answered about TVWS. Will applications be found for it that are economically viable?
...at the IEEE Get Program web site.
whether whitespace broadband will be success. The Emperors are just now arriving at the rookery sites and mating will soon commence. After eggs are transfered to the males and the females go off to feed, expect some early indications July at the earliest to see how many eggs have survived the difficult incubation period. During total whiteout conditions of deep Antarctic winter they will huddle together in the whitespace. If too many eggs have frozen or dropped onto the ice the telecoms may as well hang it all up. September is when we'll know for sure if the spectrum left over from old telly channels can store enough fish goo for regurgitation. In December the grown chicks will be off we'll have a real fledge count to go on. I hope they will be big and fat so we all can get more throughput.
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I remember the power line broadband trials were terribly noisy for ham radio services, I wonder if this is any better.
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