Technology Introduction
What are TV White Spaces?
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Global Trials, Pilots & Deployments
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Projects (15)
Namibia
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67 K-12 Schools Being
Connected
36,000 K-12 Students
Being Connected
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6 University Campuses
Being Connected
38,500 University
Students Getting MSFT
Devices & Services
200,000+ Population
Under Coverage
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Regulatory Overview
Regulators can move forward with enabling
legislation and/or regulations . . .
“The ITU World Radiocommunication Conference of 2012 concluded that
the current international regulatory framework can accommodate software
defined radio and cognitive radio systems, hence dynamic spectrum access,
without being changed. The development of systems implementing this
concept, such as TV white spaces, is therefore essentially in the hands of
national regulators in each country.
François Rancy, Director, ITU Radiocommunication Bureau
[ ITU Radiocommunication Seminar for Arab Countries, RRS13-Arab Tunis,
Tunisia on December 13, 2013 ]
Links to further information
More about TVWS technology
http://research.microsoft.com/enus/projects/spectrum/default.aspx
The Dynamic Spectrum Alliance
http://www.dynamicspectrumalliance.org/
Microsoft projects
http://research.microsoft.com/enus/projects/spectrum/pilots.aspx