Comments on: White space broadband as a white knight for rural America

By: DKBC

DKBC — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 11:57:55 +0000

Great article and good idea. Only problem is At&t and others will want to join in, if not, put a stop to it. Not trying to be negative but it just seems that’s the way it goes lately.

By: Carlson Wireless

Carlson Wireless — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 20:21:01 +0000

Craig, this is the clearest article I’ve read about TV white space, both the technology and the potential, in all the time I’ve been following the issue.
As a device vendor, Carlson is pleased to be a part of the movement to make this technology widely available. We designed our white-space device to specifications for the WISP market: affordability, high throughput, and low-profile antennas at the customer end.
We strongly support the efforts of AIR.U and New America to help move the technology forward and make a difference in rural communities.

By: radioman

radioman — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 15:07:56 +0000

The FCC’s refarming of the UHF 400 mHz TV broadcast channels for unlicensed point-multi-point and point-to-point data radio communications will go down as one of the wisest decisions(for the benefit of US citizens in rural America) the Commission has ever made. The possibilities for creating a true broadband national Internet can now be realized. The capital costs to deploy data radio to service a large rural area are significantly lower than those for cable,fiber, or mesh radio. As the UHF data radio systems are rolled out expect manufactures to integrate UHF transceivers into many different devices, including iPads, iPhones etc. as the cellcos already know that a UHF data radio “cloud” will be a cheaper way to hand off traffic from SHF 800/1.9 gHz networks that are expensive to deploy and operate. It will be interesting to see if the cellco’s try and dominate the “white space” bands. Also look for the 200 mHz band to eventually be refarmed for license free M2M links using SDR’s.