On the one hand, the decision by the Federal Communications Commission last week toapprove the first devices to run in the “white spaces” between television channels was a modest one.
The decision initially covers only one product, and is limited to the pilot city of Wilmington, N.C.
But backers of the technology hope those white spaces prove as big a boost to innovation as the unlicensed spectrum that gave birth to Wi-Fi.
“We see this as a multibillion-dollar industry,” said Rod Dir, CEO of Spectrum Bridge, the company whose database is a key.... http://allthingsd.com/20111226/rural-broandband-municipal-wi-fi-and-lots-of-other-ideas-could-fill-those-white-spaces/
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