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Article: High-Stakes Race to Unlock a Wider Web; Critics Say New Technology May Hinder TV Signals
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- July 24, 2008
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The nation's top technology companies have spent millions of
dollars and nearly two years building devices, poring over laptops
and working in federal labs trying to come up with a new way of
providing high-speed Internet to bandwidth-hungry cities as well as
hard-to-reach rural regions.
Last week, the companies moved from lab to field.
Engineers from the technology heavyweights, including Motorola
and Philips, lugged their laptops, antennas and other equipment to
parks, homes and high-rises around the Washington area, hoping to
prove to the Federal Communications Commission that the unlicensed
airwaves between television stations, known as white spaces, could
provide a new form of mobile ...