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Article: Broadcasters, tech companies duel over white spaces; Debate rages over interference, universal broadband, public-safety opportunities.(Upfront)
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- RCR Wireless News
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- September 17, 2007
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Byline: JEFFREY SILVA
Broadcasters-having invested hundreds of millions of dollars transitioning to digital technology and now bracing for a government ruling on whether to allow Wi-Fi service in unoccupied television guardbands known as white spaces-turned up the volume of its opposition by launching an inside-the-Beltway advertising blitz that the high-tech sector criticized as a scare tactic.
"Interference is not acceptable to our viewers. While our friends at Intel [Corp.], Google [Inc.] and Microsoft [Corp.] may find system errors, computer glitches and dropped calls tolerable, broadcasters do not,'' said Alan Frank, television board chairman of ...