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- mynameistux, on 08/13/2008, -4/+26white spaces, those racist bitches.
- Taiyoryu, on 08/13/2008, -0/+4And you won't until after the transition to digital broadcast television since analog broadcast television is currently using those frequencies. Plus not to mention that Verizon still has to build out the infrastructure.
- dgaspard, on 08/13/2008, -1/+4It was funny. You're just to uptight.
- juliohm, on 08/13/2008, -0/+3what's with the thumbnail??
- Suricou, on 08/13/2008, -0/+3If the FCC is regulating then they will, without the slightest doubt, insist on anti-pornograpy filtering. Expect it to be badly implimented and over-cautious. Also expect someone to find a way around it.
- andywj, on 08/13/2008, -0/+3This sounds great but when has Congress not listened to a big corporation based lobby. The public may want it, but if the corporations don't you know how the vote really goes here. And with sites like interferencezones.com already up and running joe public will be on their side. If its going to stay free there need to be an anti-interferencezones.com site that proves their claims wrong. Apart from that it sound good
- copperhead1288, on 08/13/2008, -1/+3This is pretty spectacular stuff. But I wonder if this will mean that all internet access will suddenly become wireless and free. If so, it will never happen because who'd make money off of that, right? Sad. I mean nobody would be paying for internet if there's plenty to go around. Then again, it might also become so slow that people would go back to cable modems or DSL because they won't be clogged. This article doesn't quite make that clear... or maybe I'm missing something.
- inactive, on 08/13/2008, -0/+2Hopefully politicians won't get sidetracked by cash? Wishful thinking that. My Father had a saying that covered such times.
Wish in one hand and ***** in the other. See which gets full the fastest. :) - uselessexpert, on 08/13/2008, -0/+2Well, again...if the lobbyists (the NAB in this case) have their way, we will get screwed again.
We all know that money talks and ***** walks, and the one place that that holds true in every aspect is in Washington.
Hopefully the politicians manning the FCC have the cojones to tell the NAB, ***** OFF!!! and won't get sidetracked by the nice chunk of change that may be dropped on their laps by the NAB lobbyists. - timdgibson, on 08/13/2008, -0/+1As a tech director, and someone who has been reading about this for over a year, let me tell you the test failed badly: http://tinyurl.com/682pfe. And there is more to do the story: in a test on Broadway, they failed badly as well. And you guys have it wrong. These "white spaces" are needed. They are where all the wireless mics are broadcast on. So all TV recording, concerts, plays, musicals, Olympics, etc will be affected. Please read this: http://tinyurl.com/5h3abo.
- inactive, on 08/13/2008, -0/+1To the people thinking, wireless and free? Not bloody likely. Don't you just love articles that use the words publicly owned and stranglehold in the same paragraph?
- tortuga66, on 08/12/2008, -3/+4Great article, and I am glad this went so well, the NAB needs to get out of the way and let the future happen.
- jodimcmullen, on 08/12/2008, -1/+2Drool...
- MacParrot, on 08/13/2008, -0/+1Amazing stuff, benefit to mankind I'm sure, will reach across broad plains and make us all see the beauty and diversity of this planet and end wars, disease, and pestilence but what I desperately need to know is...
Who won the game? - Taiyoryu, on 08/13/2008, -0/+1I think you meant "undeRserved"
- jessecollins, on 08/13/2008, -0/+1My guess (without actually checking the score) is the Redskins b/c it seems as though the Buffalo Bills only played one player.
Per the article description: The FCC used this weekend's pre-season football game between the Washington Redskins and the Buffalo Bill...
Ok, you can you digg me down now... - hysonmb, on 08/13/2008, -0/+0This is cool, football and geek crap all in one, can the world get any better?
I hope this can make it through all of the red tape that's holding back enhancements to our tech. The capability of much higher speeds and better service is there, just waiting for people who don't understand it to sign off on it. - proverbs17, on 08/13/2008, -0/+0What should really be pointed out about this technology is the fact that it works best in RURAL areas, which are UNDESERVED by the tel coms, and cable companies.
This seems like a no brainer to me, but then I'm not big telcom getting rich off of selling my services, and I want to keep rural areas undeserved. - sb1349, on 08/13/2008, -0/+0the article is good to a point it the frequency should not be auctioned off beyond that it missed the point. If anyone can broadcast in the white space it could mean someone idiot who doesn't know what he is doing could broadcast and screw up tv for a large area. This frequency should get licensed under the same rules as 3.5 ghz where wireless internet service providers pay a small fee to set up a base station. This insures that not every moron can go out and but one of these devices and just kick it on just to piss people off by cutting off the tv signal during there favorite show.
- Yshinozuka, on 08/13/2008, -1/+1This is pretty neat, but hopefully in the future it won't be the only method of connecting to wireless internet. With the government managing this kind of thing, won't it give them permission to do whatever they want with it? If everyone's connected to the same sources, then it would be like taking candy from a baby.
- gkiltz, on 08/13/2008, -0/+0Once the digital conversion is complete, and the powers and heights of the digital transmitters have been adjusted to have real coverage that equals analog, whitespace will be a thing of the past!
- coldfusioneer, on 11/07/2008, -0/+0http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Voyant-Int ...
These guys are already manufacturing commercial-grade spectrum-sensing white space radio device not just for broadband, but also innovative uses such as long-range radio control of devices and data transmissions.
Think smart traffic signals that's solar-powered with LED signal lights, with software-defined signal processing, video streaming of traffic conditions, image/on-ground traffic sensors, automated with central control and central data processing. ALL WIRELESS and GREEN! - JeffMaster, on 08/13/2008, -4/+3wifi on steroids.. where have I heard that... oh yeah, when the 700MHz was sold... and I still have no super wifi.
- inactive, on 08/13/2008, -5/+1Great article, and I am glad this went so well, the NAB needs to get out of the way and let the future happen.
- remakeru, on 08/13/2008, -7/+1I hope you forgot the tag ( /S ), cause else it's not funny! :)
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