Google tests white spaces as rural educational broadband solution

Following Microsoft in its recent initiative to trial white space technology in Kenya, now Google is also experimenting with the wireless broadband system in Africa, this time in Cape Town, South Africa.

The TV WHite Space (TVWS) network will operate from the university town of Stellenbosch, which itself provides free Wi-Fi for its citizens, as it attempts to deliver low-cost internet to ten schools within a ten-kilometre area. The provided speeds will be 2.5Mbps. Three base stations in Stellenbosch will broadcast the "affordable broadband" signal according to the Tertiary Education and Research Network of South Africa (TENET), a partner in the programme.

Cape Town isn't the first place that Google has introduced such a trial, however. The company teamed up with Spectrum Bridge and the Hocking Valley Community Hospital in September 2010 to deploy a similar network using TV white spaces spectrum in Logan, Ohio.

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