FCC Cranks Up White-Spaces Testing

The Federal Communications Commission is conducting testing to determine whether and how to allow spectrum-sensing unlicensed devices to operate in the digital-TV-spectrum band being used by broadcasters. If a device cannot tell when a broadcaster is already using the channel, it could mistakenly start transmitting on the channel and create interference to those beautiful new DTV signals broadcasters' future depends on. The latest unlicensed wireless device (from Motorola) to be tested by the Federal Communications Commission again failed to detect a TV signal when there was another signal nearby, according to the Association for Maximum Service Television (MSTV), while Motorola said that was not the case.
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