Tag Archive for 'spectrum'


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Deadline: 05 December 2008.




USA: FCC approves ‘white space’ for broadband

by
Chanuka Wattegama
on November 6, 2008
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The Federal Communications Commission, as expected, approved a measure that would make “white space” spectrum available for wireless broadband.

White space is industry lingo for the unused airwaves that abut broadcast TV spectrum, providing a buffer zone from stray signals and other inferference. The buffer zone was set up more than 50 years ago when TV was first invented.

The FCC’s white-space plan was initially proposed four years ago. More than 25,000 comments — from supporters as well as critics — were submitted.

Under the FCC’s plan, white space spectrum will be unlicensed and free — like Wi-Fi — to anybody who wants to use it. In some markets, there’s enough white space to fill a half dozen TV channels

Read the full story in USA Today here.

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LIRNEasia engages in act of “social corporate responsibility”!

by
Nirmali Sivapragasam
on October 2, 2008
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Large corporations engage in acts of Corporate Social Responsibility.  Non-profit organizations like ours sometimes engage in acts of Social Corporate Responsibility.   SCR differs from CSR because the beneficiary here is a corporation.  We recognize that large corporations can affect the course of events in countries and in some cases, the world.   Therefore, when a large corporation with massive resources asked us to help educate their senior managers (especially those in charge of CSR) about key issues in telecom, we agreed. 

Here are four one-pager briefs that were prepared for this purpose:  the topics were Underserved areas; access and backbone networks, spectrum and  ICT4D in South Asia (excluding India).

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