Wireless Telemetry Advocates Wrong on White Spaces Database, Google Says
Google challenged arguments by the Wireless Medical Telemetry Service Coalition (WMTS) and GE Healthcare (GEHC) that data presented to the FCC by NAB show problems with the TV white spaces (TVWS) database of concern to the medical community as the…
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agency examines unlicensed use of TV Channel 37. The coalition and GEHC asked for additional technical rules to protect wireless telemetry use of the spectrum (see 1508030059). “Like NAB, GE Healthcare and the WMTS Coalition fail to identify even one instance of harmful interference from a TVWS device," Google said. “Indeed, as Google has previously revealed, the flawed NAB filing that GE Healthcare and the WMTS Coalition invoke focused on entries into TVWS databases that almost certainly reflect professional testing by hardware manufacturers, not misuse of devices by the rogue operators that GE Healthcare and the WMTS Coalition attempt to conjure.” The filing was posted Tuesday in docket 12-268.