FCC Announces the Opening of Public Testing for Google's TV Band Database System Registration Procedures

The Federal Communications Commission’s Office of Engineering and Technology (OET) announces that on June 2, 2014, it will commence a 45-day public trial of a new registration system for Google’s TV band database system.

TV band databases support the operation of unlicensed devices on unused spectrum in the TV band (TV white space or “TVWS”).

Currently, Spectrum Bridge, another approved TV band database administrator, is managing the registration of protected entities on Google's behalf.

Google has now developed its own protected facility registration procedures to replace its use of the Spectrum Bridge procedures. This is a limited trial that is intended to allow the public to access and test Google’s new registration procedures to ensure that those procedures properly register certain facilities entitled to protection and that its modified database system provides protection to such registered facilities as specified in the rules.