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Article: Fight continues over white-spaces sharing; Broadcasters, hi-tech spar over test results.(News)
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- RCR Wireless News
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- March 3, 2008
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Byline: JEFFREY SILVA
The war of words continues over government testing of wireless devices that could be allowed to operate in vacant broadcast spectrum, with claims about the viability of Wi-Fi operations in white spaces as divergently polarized as congressional testimony over whether pitching great Roger Clemens used steroids.
The Wireless Innovation Alliance, a group of tech firms and public-interest organizations that back wireless broadband exploitation of TV white spaces, wrote members of Congress to urge that Federal Communications Commission testing be based on engineering rather than politics.
"FCC engineers have a long and ...