Spectrum Bridge today gained final approval from the FCC to operate its TV white spaces database system beginning January 26.
The FCC’s Office of Engineering and Technology (OET) has designated Microsoft a TV bands database administrator.
As expected, the FCC today adopted an order aimed at releasing unused television spectrum, also known as “TV white spaces,” for unlicensed use
In the first trial of its kind in the US, PSREC, Spectrum Bridge and Google are using TV white space spectrum for a SmartGrid project.
The rural community of Claudeville, Virginia is benefiting from an experimental first — a broadband network that makes use of wireless spectrum freed up by the conversion to digital TV