Google Wants TV 'White Space' For Wi-Fi

Rcourt64 · 03-24-2008

San Francisco - Less than a week after losing in the latest U.S. spectrum auction, Google Inc. has started pitching its plan to use TV "white space" - unlicensed and unused airwaves - to provide wireless Internet.

In a letter to the Federal Communications Commission released by Google on Monday, the Internet search giant pressed the government to open up the white space for unlicensed use in hopes of enabling more widespread, affordable Internet access over the airwaves.
"As Google has pointed out previously, the vast majority of viable spectrum in this country simply goes unused, or else is grossly underutilized," Richard Whitt, Google's Washington telecom and media lawyer, wrote in the letter. "Unlike other natural resources, there is no benefit to allowing this spectrum to lie fallow."

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So is Google gonna start offering Internet?

RawAlex · 03-25-2008

Google will find that the boradcasters won't be very happy about this, as using the "whitespace" often means that fringe signals would be lost. Google is just sitting their licking their wounds because they didn't put a big enough bid in for the bandwidth that is coming available when channels 2 - 12 go dark in 2009.

EmporerEJ · 03-25-2008

Google should have ponied up the bucks and outbid Verizon for the airwaves it wanted.
Not like they ain't got it.

vdc-Loki · 03-25-2008

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03-24-2008	#1
Rcourt64 Filling Bishop's Pond Respin bullshit press Your Comments Are Welcomed Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 2,942	Google Wants TV 'White Space' For Wi-Fi San Francisco - Less than a week after losing in the latest U.S. spectrum auction, Google Inc. has started pitching its plan to use TV "white space" - unlicensed and unused airwaves - to provide wireless Internet. In a letter to the Federal Communications Commission released by Google on Monday, the Internet search giant pressed the government to open up the white space for unlicensed use in hopes of enabling more widespread, affordable Internet access over the airwaves. "As Google has pointed out previously, the vast majority of viable spectrum in this country simply goes unused, or else is grossly underutilized," Richard Whitt, Google's Washington telecom and media lawyer, wrote in the letter. "Unlike other natural resources, there is no benefit to allowing this spectrum to lie fallow." Source So is Google gonna start offering Internet?

03-25-2008	#2
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