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The Federal Communications Commission has formally approved a proposal (PDF) that will enable mobile device manufactures to use unused portions of the television broadcasting spectrum—so-called “whitespaces”—for unlicensed mobile broadband operations. The whitespace signal spectrum spaces were freed up as part of the United States' transition from analog to digital television broadcasting, and promise to offer… Read More

Armed with a congressional mandate and stimulus funds, the FCC is working on a National Broadband Plan to ensure the digital media technology industry has sufficient broadband to spur economic growth. The FCC unveiled a sneak peek on Dec. 17 of what it will report to Congress by the Feb. 17, 2010, deadline. Applause was not deafening. Although Mark Wigfield, the FCC spokesman for the National Broadband Plan says, “I think everybody thinks it’s a… Read More

The Federal Communications Commission has voted to approve a plan (PDF) that will allow wireless devices to operate in unused “whitespaces” in the television broadcast spectrum. The whitespace plan has been backed by technology companies like Google and Microsoft as a means to enable new capabilities in wireless devices like mobile phones, media players, and cameras; however, it has been opposed by traditional broadcasters and… Read More