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Article: Microphone Interests Coalition Responds to Google White Space Proposal
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- May 1, 2008
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A broad coalition of high-profile wireless microphone users, organized as the Microphone Interests Coalition (MIC), has criticized the recent proposal submitted by Google to open the socalled "white spaces" to unlicensed device use.
Google is touting the proposal as a spectrum compromise that eliminates any remaining interference concerns about using personal/portable devices in the unassigned TV channels called white spaces. The Microphone Interests Coalition, however, says the plan is far from a compromise and should not be viewed as a solution for wireless microphones.
The proposal, similar to one submitted earlier by Motorola, would require wireless microphone users to purchase and ...