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Article: FCC: Should government license, auction TV white spaces?(News)
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- RCR Wireless News
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- October 16, 2006
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Byline: HEATHER FORSGREN WEAVER
The Federal Communications Commission said it believes fixed-low-power devices can operate in the vacant TV spectrum after the transition to digital TV is completed, set for 2009.
The vacant TV channels are set aside to protect TV broadcasters from interference, and are known as white spaces.
One surprising piece of the government's ruling is that the agency is asking whether licensed uses should be allowed in the white spaces, and if the FCC should auction the spectrum. Up until last week's decision, the general assumption was that the FCC would only authorize unlicensed operations in the white spaces.
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