<<Google has unveiled plans to use the "White Space" between television channels in the US to create a " Wi-Fi 2.0 or Wi-Fi on steroids" less than a week after being unsuccessful in the 700Mhz spectrum auction in the US.
In a letter to the Federal Communications Commission released by Google on Monday, the Search Engine giant has called on the government to open up the so called "white space" unused channels on the television for unlicensed use in hopes of enabling more widespread, affordable Internet access over the airwaves. >>
Sky News, http://news.sky.com/skynews/xml/article/tech/0,,91221-13591,00.html |
This has actually been the focus of a Google fellowship:
http://www.google.com/policyfellowship/hosts.html#naf |
