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Redline Announces White Space Product

Posted by Sam Churchill on May 22nd, 2013

Redline Communications, a leading provider of wireless backhaul, today unveiled a White Space system for the 470-698 Mhz band. Redline’s RDL-3000 is a sub-700 MHz network technology, which operates in frequencies between 470 and 698 MHz and leverages the non-line-of-sight network attributes of the UHF spectrum. Built on Redline’s recently announced Universal Wireless Transport platform, [...]

600 MHz Auction Speculation

Posted by Sam Churchill on May 6th, 2013

Fierce Wireless reviews the big 600 MHz auction due next year, which will auction off as much as 120 MHz, between TV channels 30-50. The 600 MHz band promises to enhance LTE coverage with even better range than the current 700 MHz band. But the number of licenses put up for auction depends almost entirely [...]

UK Gears Up for Commercial White Spaces

Posted by Sam Churchill on April 26th, 2013

The UK is gearing up for a White Space rollout next year, after their trial in Cambridge, with potential uses including rural broadband and machine to machine communications. Ofcom chief executive Ed Richards said in a statement on Friday: “Ofcom is preparing for a future where consumers’ demand for data services will experience huge growth. [...]

California Gold Country Gets White Space

Posted by Sam Churchill on April 23rd, 2013

California ISP Cal.net, a commercial ISP, has deployed white space broadband to serve mountainous regions of California’s Gold Country. Carlson Wireless is calling the deployment “the nation’s first independently funded commercial-grade TV white spaces broadband network.” Carson’s RuralConnect uses UHF spectrum. The software-defined radio offers user-configurable data rates, modulation rates, and channel bandwidths. At 470 [...]

Aereo: The Battle Begins

Posted by Sam Churchill on April 10th, 2013

CBS has joined Fox in the broadcaster backlash following last week’s federal district court decision that denied the broadcasters’ request for a preliminary injunction against Aereo. That decision upheld Aereo’s right to stream broadcast TV without paying retransmission fees. Aereo currently streams 28 New York stations include WCBS 2, WNBC 4, WNYW 5, WABC 7, [...]

NAB 2013

Posted by Sam Churchill on April 8th, 2013

The National Association of Broadcasters which advocates for continued free access to the public airwaves, unlike nearly all other users, is holding their annual show this week in Las Vegas. A growing number of advertising consumers have stopped paying for cable and satellite TV and don’t even use an antenna to get free signals over [...]