Article: White-hot action over white-spaces; Mobile players urge licensed approach to contested airwaves.

Byline: JEFFREY SILVA

Just as the Federal Communications Commission appears ready to settle the great white-spaces debate one predominantly framed to date by a powerful broadcast lobby fearing costly disruption to digital signals from unlicensed devices and by equally muscular high-tech titans anxious to exploit prime unused TV spectrum for further Wi-Fi deployment a new surge appears to be gaining momentum for a licensing approach to huge amounts of valuable airwaves.

Among those making an 11th-hour push for licensing white spaces are Aloha Partners L.P., Qualcomm Inc., cellular industry association CTIA and the Rural Cellular Association. Sprint ...

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