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Submitted: September 13, 2006 - 8:26am
Last updated: February 21, 2008 - 3:46am
Last updated: February 21, 2008 - 3:46am
FCC SETS ROADMAP FOR USING VACANT TV AIRWAVES
[SOURCE: Reuters]
The Federal Communications Commission on Tuesday set a roadmap for making airwaves between television channels available for other services by early 2009, when broadcasters are due to switch to digital signals. The agency said it expects to have from its laboratory the results of tests for interference by July 2007 and would set final technical requirements for devices to use those airwaves without an FCC license by October 2007. The FCC said in a notice it would accept applications for the equipment in December 2007 with the goal of having them on retail store shelves by February 2009, when broadcasters are scheduled to turn off their analog airwaves and broadcast in digital.
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* Proceeding on Unlicensed Operation in the TV Broadcast Bands
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