The technology uses gaps in radio spectrum, called 'white spaces', which exist in between frequency bands.
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's television white spaces database system, which may provide service to devices beginning January 26, 2012.
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Last month Microsoft, the BBC, BT and Nokia announced they would launch a white spaces consortium.
The technology works by identifying the unoccupied white spaces to transmit and receive wireless signals.
Ofcom's planned pilot will use the white spaces that exist between airwaves reserved for digital terrestrial TV broadcasting.
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In the United States, Wilmington, North Carolina, has a white spaces project in place, and the Air.
This could help to fill in the huge white spaces of unused spectrum.
Some white spaces do still exist for new categories, narrow niches or new local twists on the same ole thing.
So-called white spaces devices are currently being trialled for use in the spectrum gaps freed up by the digital TV switchover.
In effect White Spaces look like a new broadband mobile system.
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The white spaces of a contemporary art gallery are only a social convention one that will inevitably be replaced by yet another convention of a different kind.
The pilot will test the inter-operation of white spaces devices, white space databases and the processes to mitigate against causing any undue interference to current spectrum users.
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But sometimes there are interesting white spaces in crowded markets.
Use of these white spaces will allow devices to transmit and receive wireless signals for applications such as broadband access for rural communities, Wi-Fi-like services or new 'machine-to-machine' networks.
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His three new pieces seem to burst out of the white spaces of Larry Gagosian's gallery near King's Cross station (where they will be on show until December 20th).
In a little known battle in the UK, both Google and Microsoft are competing for white spaces, gaps in the radio spectrum between TV, radio and mobile.
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This database will provide updated information on where the TV white spaces are and the power level that devices would need to be restricted to if they wanted to use them.
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On white spaces, he says, that even after incentive auctions, the stations that remain will still have separation, and there will still be spaces between them which can be valuable spectrum.
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Unleashing white spaces spectrum has the potential to exceed even the many billions of dollars in economic benefit from Wi-Fi, the last significant release of unlicensed spectrum, and drive private investment and job creation.
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It is the first deployment of solar-powered base stations working together with TV white spaces, a technology partially developed by Microsoft Research, to deliver high-speed Internet access to areas currently lacking even basic electricity.
Meanwhile Google could use the white spaces as a way of offering free wi-fi services to customers with phones powered by its Android operating system, as well as to other members of the public.
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This is not the first time that TV white spaces have been used in this way - in the UK pilots are underway on the Isle of Bute in Scotland and in Cambridge.
Where are the white spaces, the unsolved problems?
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The FCC has been more than a little eager to repurpose spectrum as wireless internet access takes off: white spaces and iDEN frequencies have already switched roles, and that's not including the myriad of spectrum swaps.
At this point all the snazzy new websites and re-focused marketing efforts in the world aren't going to get Google, Microsoft, and the other members of the White Spaces Coalition anywhere if they don't actually demonstrate the broadband-in-between-TV-signals tech in action -- and it looks like that's proving to be harder than expected.
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Not everyone celebrates the demolition of details like wood moldings and stately fireplaces in favor of white Sheetrock, loftlike spaces and glass.
The flagship of the ultra-luxury Peninsula Hotel Group, this icon has been famed for its white glove service, opulent public spaces, fine dining, and fleet of custom "Peninsula green" Rolls Royces since it opened in 1928.
The white settlers who moved into these vast spaces benefited from the water projects, but the Indians usually did not.
Construction workers push carts on rail tracks, left over from mining days, through seemingly endless tunnels carved through metamorphic rock, while scientists head straight to their lab spaces, spotless and chilly in their fresh coat of white paint.
After viewing scenes that involved green trees, participants reported feeling happier and their exercise less difficult than when the same scenes appeared in black-and-white or red, suggesting that exercising in nature or simulated green spaces could be helpful for exercisers, says Dr. Micklewright.
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