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January 26, 2012
The county launched the nation's first wireless Internet using what is known as white spaces. Jim McDaniel, New Hanover County Director of Parks, describes White Spaces as “Wi-Fi on steroids.” The bandwidth being utilized is leftover from the digital switch.
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January 26, 2012
The official launch later today of the world’s first commercial TV white spaces network is likely to spark questions about when the first white spaces-enabled consumer gadget will launch. The answer: one to two years.
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January 26, 2012
A long-awaited broadband communications alternative will finally become reality today when the City of Wilmington, N.C. officially turns up the nation’s first white spaces network in a ceremony scheduled for 2:00 p.m. eastern.
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January 26, 2012
Nearly eight years after the idea first germinated and more than three years after the Federal Communications Commission proposed rules for it, the world’s first commercial white spaces network has finally come to fruition.
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December 29, 2011
Smartphone companies and carriers are desperate for network capacity to provide souped-up service, but they're hard-pressed to find it. The latest attempt: a government effort to use the staticky space between television channels.
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December 26, 2011
On the one hand, the decision by the Federal Communications Commission last week to approve the first devices to run in the “white spaces” between television channels was a modest one. The decision initially covers only one product, and is limited to the pilot city of Wilmington, N.C. But backers of the technology hope those white spaces prove as big a boost to innovation as the unlicensed spectrum that gave birth to Wi-Fi.
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November 07, 2011
The first trial of a live white space database has completed, and demonstrated that the technology works – even if the people using it need a little more work.
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September 27, 2011
Utilities could soon have another option for smart grid communications: using unlicensed spectrum in TV white spaces (TVWS).
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September 20, 2011
The next generation of Wi-Fi was supposed to offer a big boost in capacity and range. It's likely that a few years from now, Americans' laptops, smart phones, and other wireless devices will be able to get online using "Super Wi-Fi," a new standard that will increase capacity in places where regular Wi-Fi networks have become overcrowded.
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September 14, 2011
Spectrum Bridge is on a roll. The company today won approval from the Federal Communications Commission to test its TV white spaces database. The news comes a day after the Lake Mary, Fla., company scored $8.8 million in second-round funding.