Donovan Rips FCC's White Spaces Plan

David Donovan, president of the Association for Maximum Service Television, blasted Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin's plan to permit unlicensed computer devices in unoccupied portions of the broadcast spectrum-so-called white spaces. Donovan warned that the plan to allow sensing-only devices in some instances would lead to "massive interference." Donovan said the testing by the FCC's Office of Engineering and Technology demonstrates beyond any doubt that unlicensed devices relying exclusively on sensing will cause harmful interference to millions of consumers' digital television sets and government subsidized converter boxes.