white space

Says government should incentivize TV white spaces initiative.

Computer companies, led by Microsoft, have formed the Connect Americans Now coalition and are seeking to access the so-called TV white spaces to close the rural digital divide.

Members on both sides of the aisle in Congress are calling on the FCC to emphasize TV white spaces as a potential resource for future broadband as the spectrum repack begins.

Rice University engineers say they demonstrated wireless data transmissions over UHF channels during active TV broadcasts.