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White Space Round Two
by Andrew McCaskey
One of the most disruptive of the technologies that are being discussed are those surrounding re-use of unoccupied sections of spectrum in and among the UHF channels that will be used for digital TV.
WIth the 700Mhz blocks being auctioned for billions of dollars, there is great incentive for the established carriers to buy up the licenses, and basically sit on them. Whitespace devices are a possible killer technology that could wipe out that investment virtually overnight.
Not that Verizon or AT&T have asked – but it looks to me that they would be wise to put some innovative energy into deploying that 700Mhz spectrum immediately.
The combination of Microsoft, Intel, HP and half a dozen other heavyweights with vested interest in making White Space Devices (WSD) will eventually prevail – no matter how long the technical smokescreen holds at the FCC, egged on by broadcasters and the NAB.
Then, riding the learning and production curves in unlicensed white space spectrum, you will see an incredible rush of creativity, just as at 2.4 Ghz.
You could think of WSD as sort of the WMD of the RF world.
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