Google, Microsoft Team up for UK White Space Trial2012-11-05 09:43 by DanielaTags: white space
Google and Microsoft are reportedly interested in utilising UK white space spectrum to provide free Wi-Fi services. The details of Google and Microsoft's plans are not known, but telecoms analysts said the latter could be eyeing the white spaces as a way of building free, automatic wi-fi access into Nokia‘s new generation of Windows smartphones. These spaces are effectively gaps between those airwaves used for television, radio and mobile services, and are used as buffers to prevent the broadcasting and mobile signals from interfering with each other. In the past, white spaces have been put to little or no use, but telecoms regulator Ofcom wants to develop them for broadband services. It's not the first time Microsoft has expressed such an interest in the UK's white space either. In June 2011, the company led a consortium of television companies to see if the spectrum could be used in Cambridge without disrupting broadcast services. Neul, the company providing the necessary network hardware, expanded the trial to the whole city earlier this year, checking to ensure that other wireless applications weren't disrupted. Read more -here-
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