itnews.com.au — 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 the abandoned analogue television spectrum.
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myztryFeb 7, 2009
It's good to see Microsoft come on board something which is fully open for a change. Google gambled $4 billion in the Telco frequency space to get some concessions from the FCC. If they had of won that allotment they would have had no real means to get a ROI.Still they got the ball rolling, so hopefully wide wireless networks can get past things like expensive SMS packets and the like which the Telco's so dearly want to hold onto.
fxu1989Feb 7, 2009
its
hoodedrobinFeb 7, 2009
You... Suck... at being an adult.
Closed AccountFeb 7, 2009
They pledge for open standards but I'll believe it when I see it. Hard for me to believe Microsoft when at the same time they want Intel to restrict access to Linux.
Closed AccountFeb 8, 2009
t**s
factsahoyFeb 9, 2009
It was. There was a large (somewhat unsuccessful) auction of this spectrum just a couple years ago.public memory = zero