{"id":6321,"date":"2008-01-18T16:16:07","date_gmt":"2008-01-18T16:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/white-space-internet-closer.html"},"modified":"2008-01-18T16:16:07","modified_gmt":"2008-01-18T16:16:07","slug":"white-space-internet-closer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/white-space-internet-closer.html","title":{"rendered":"White Space Internet Closer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Although we unfortunately will not be able to take advantage of new and exciting internet devices utilizing &quot;white space&quot; technology next week at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.itexpo.com\">Internet Telephony Conference &amp; Expo<\/a> in Miami&#8230; It does seem that at some point in the future, these unused and unlicensed TV spectrum frequencies could make broadband more accessible and affordable.<\/p>\n<p>Last year a coalition which includes Microsoft, Philips, Google Inc., Dell Inc., Hewlett-Packard Co., Intel Corp. and EarthLink Inc. submitted prototypes to the FCC for testing.<\/p>\n<p>So far these devices have not proved to work properly in the real world but thankfully the FCC will <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmcnet.com\/usubmit\/2008\/01\/18\/3218726.htm\">resume testing<\/a> soon and hopefully if these tests are successful, they will be more internet options on the market.<\/p>\n<p>For more on this developing story check out this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmcnet.com\/usubmit\/2008\/01\/18\/3218726.htm\">piece <\/a>from the Associated Press.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although we unfortunately will not be able to take advantage of new and exciting internet devices utilizing &quot;white space&quot; technology next week at Internet Telephony Conference &amp; Expo in Miami&#8230; It does seem that at some point in the future, these unused and unlicensed TV spectrum frequencies could make broadband more accessible and affordable. Last<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[158,171,180,172,160,163,199,197,188,198,156,189,203,118,190,191,205,219,175],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6321"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6321\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}