Article: Google, Philips, Microsoft, Moto tee up for fresh round of white-spaces testing.(News)

Byline: JEFFREY SILVA

The debate whether to unleash a potentially huge amount of vacant broadcast spectrum-called white spaces-for Wi-Fi and other low-power wireless applications has reached a critical juncture, with federal regulators set to conduct another round of testing on a new group of devices to see if they can avoid interference with digital TV signals.

Google Inc., which plans to bid in the upcoming 700 MHz auction and a member of the alliance developing an open-phone platform, provided the Federal Communications Commission results of internal testing that the Internet search-engine giant said proves its white-spaces technologies work without ...

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