GE Backs Medical Cure for Its White-Spaces Problem

As a member of the National Association of Broadcasters, NBC is in a pitched battle with computer companies over the use of unlicensed portable mobile devices in so-called white spaces between digital-TV channels, but parent General Electric said it found a way to allow them, if somewhat grudgingly, in concert with its medical devices that use the TV spectrum. According to a letter to the Federal Communications Commission from corporate parent GE, its GE Healthcare division told the FCC it is satisfied that channel-protection technology it proposed for healthcare devices "was sufficient … to protect licensed wireless medical telemetry service" on channel 37 from "proposed portable white-spaces devices" that would seek out adjacent channels to use.
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