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White space goes live

Jan 27, 2012
Grandmaster Flash mistakes white space for "White Lines" and says "don't do it!"

White space gets green light

Dec 23, 2011
See what I did there? With the colors? Ah, I thought it was clever. Am I typing this or just thinking it? The FCC has approved a device, some kind of radio, from a company called KTS or Koos Technologies to operate on the so-called white spaces of frequency that exist between television stations. We’ve […]

For public good, not for profit.

Supercommittee says sell spectrum

Oct 10, 2011
On Friday, Rep. Fred Upton (R-Mich.), Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.), Rep. Xavier Becerra (D-Calif.) and Sen. Patrick Toomey (R-Pa.) - all members of...

All the perks with none of the pain

Sep 22, 2011
Verizon, the nation's number one wireless carrier, gave its un-official blessing of the AT&T/T-Mobile merger (officially it remains neutral)....

FCC is going to start testing white space

Sep 15, 2011
White space. Sounds like something from a sci-fi novel. But, it's real. We talked about this last year when the FCC voted to open this part of the...