White Space Spectrum

[Bob Jonkman]

Not until at least 2011, when Canada is slated to switch broadcast television 
from an analogue signal to digital.

Google has been a major driver for opening the "white space" spectrum.  I've 
been following the discussion here:

http://googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.com/search/label/White%20Spaces

but that doesn't mean I understand it.

--Bob.


On 7 Nov 2008 at 11:13, Stuart Read wrote:

>I think an even more pressing (although less exciting) question is
>which decade will the CRTC get around to regulating this...
>
>-Stuart
>
=====
    Date:	Thu, 6 Nov 2008 15:28:52 -0800 (PST)
    From:	Victor Mendonça <victorbrca at yahoo.ca>
    Subject:	White Space Spectrum
    To:	The Canadian Ubuntu Users Community <ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com>

>I just found out that FCC has approved the usage of TV "white space"
>spectrum to unlicensed devices. (call me slow) . Is anyone following this?
>
>
>As soon as I finished reading the article I already had about a million
>questions in my head.
>
>Here's 4 of them if someone knows the answer!! ;-p
>
>- What kind of devices will be used?
>- Will this be for home usage only?
>- Is there a possibility that this might be used at some point for free
>Internet access? (http://wirelesstoronto.ca/) - What transfer speed it the
>spectrum rated?
>
>
>Links:
>http://freetheairwaves.com/
>http://www.wirelessinnovationalliance.org/
>
>
>
>Cheers,
>
>
>Victor Mendonça
>IT Worker - Linux enthusiast
>http://wazem.org/
>


-- -- -- --
Bob Jonkman <bjonkman at sobac.com>  http://www.sobac.com/index.htm
SOBAC Microcomputer Services              Voice: +1-519-669-0388
6 James Street, Elmira ON  Canada  N3B 1L5  Fax: +1-603-308-6118
Networking   --   Office & Business Automation   --   Consulting
PGP:0xAE33E989 Fingrprnt:9FAF A6AC B567 BC10 8973 7CF0 CB27 0317



-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-ca/attachments/20081107/5f4e439a/attachment.html>