Dynamic Spectrum Alliance Wants 3 Reserved Channels in White Spaces
There's a “critical need” to reserve at least three channels per market for unlicensed use, said Dynamic Spectrum Alliance President Kalpak Gude in a meeting Monday with the FCC Media Bureau, Office of Engineering Technology and the Wireless Bureau, said…
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a later filing in docket 12-268. Three channels would “ensure availability everywhere and incentivize investment, both by chip manufacturers and service providers, in TVWS [TV white space] technology,” DSA said. Comparing a single low-power TV station in one market vs. TVWS availability “would be a mistake” because “lack of TVWS channels everywhere would negatively impact the availability of TVWS everywhere,” the group said. All rural LPTV stations and translators should be placed together in one portion of the band “to enable the most efficient use of the remaining spectrum for TVWS services,” it said.