Microsoft, Dell push FCC for access to unused TV spectrum
InfoWorld | at | by Mike
Three major technology vendors are pressing the U.S. Federal Communications Commission to finish work on a 2-year-old technical proceeding that would allow new wireless devices to operate in unused television spectrum.
Representatives from Microsoft, Intel and Dell Inc. have cheered a new proposal in the U.S. Congress requiring the FCC to finish the proceeding on so-called white spaces unused by television stations in many U.S. markets. The Communications, Consumer's Choice, and Broadband Deployment Act, a wide-ranging telecom reform bill to be debated Thursday in the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, would set a deadline for the FCC to finish the white spaces proceeding.