we're one step closer.
Now if we could just get the house to pass
this....
Marlon
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From: New America Foundation
Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2006 6:58 AM
Subject: Broadcast to Broadband: Prominent Engineers Dismiss
Broadcast Lobby Claims that Wireless on Empty TV Channels Risks
Interference Prominent Spectrum for Wireless
Broadband Will Interfere
with DTV Reception On June 28, the Senate Commerce
Committee completed its mark-up of comprehensive telecom
reform legislation. The Committee included, without amendment, Title
VI, the "Wireless Innovation Act of 2006," which directs
the FCC to open the vacant,
unused TV channel frequencies in each local TV market (also known
as TV band white space) for unlicensed wireless broadband use (FCC
Docket 04-186). Originally sponsored by Senators Stevens (R-AK), Allen
(R-VA), Sununu (R-NH), Boxer (D-CA), Kerry (D-MA) and Dorgan (D-ND),
the provision is supported by a majority of both parties due to the
enormous potential it holds to spread affordable wireless broadband access,
particularly to rural areas. Unfortunately, the broadcast TV
and wireless microphone industries oppose the proposal and continue to
spread misinformation about it, arguing that allowing unlicensed use
of this white space would cause harmful interference to the 13%
of American households that continue to rely on over-the-air TV
reception (the rest subscribe to cable or satellite TV). New Why
Unlicensed Use of Vacant TV Spectrum Will Not Cause Interference to DTV
Viewers, explains why the use of smart
radios, in combination with the conventional FCC rulemaking process, will be
enough to ensure that DTV receivers and other licensed uses of the TV band
are not harmed by unlicensed devices. This Issue
Brief expands on and updates an earlier one released by New
America in October 2005, and incorporates responses to the incumbents latest
arguments on Capitol Hill. The co-authors
are:
Other useful documents on the
TV White Space debate are available free from New America,
including:
Thanks for your interest. Director, Wireless Future
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