DTVCast Aims to Broadcast Broadband

DTVCast is looking to help telecommunication companies deliver quality broadband to consumers in hard-to-reach rural areas using broadcast spectrum.

More than two years in the making, DTVCast has developed a technology and a business plan to get consumers online using the same spectrum they use to watch television. “We’re marrying broadcast to broadband,” says John Kyle, co-founder of DTVCast, and president of DTV America, an operator of low-power TV stations. Depending on how big a slice of a station’s 19.4 mbps of spectrum is used for broadband, consumers could achieve Internet speeds of 10 mbps or faster.