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Article: Silicon Valley group pushes for white space access; Provides compliant Wi-Fi device in attempt to sway FCC to make spectrum unlicensed.(News)
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- RCR Wireless News
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- March 19, 2007
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Byline: JEFFREY SILVA
High-tech and electronic giants last week gave the Federal Communications Commission a Wi-Fi device to test that they said can operate in vacant television frequencies without disrupting high definition TV signals. Thus, the product could ratchet up the stakes in a battle between Silicon Valley and the powerful broadcast lobby over the possibility of injecting additional unlicensed spectrum into the market.
The coalition is urging the FCC to conduct its own tests using the device, designed to operate across frequency bands 54 MHz to 698 MHz (TV channels 2-51). The upper end of the TV band is adjacent to spectrum being transferred ...