57 Oregon State Legislators Want TVWS for Unlicensed Use
Fifty-seven Oregon state legislators urged the FCC and Chairman Ajit Pai to reserve the TV white spaces for unlicensed use to promote rural broadband, in a letter Wednesday addressed to “Commissioner Pai.” Reserving the TVWS "will let the private sector…
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and companies like Microsoft work on implementing new technologies that have the ability to bring reliable and affordable broadband into rural communities,” the letter said. “The digital divide continues to exist in Oregon and may well be contributing to the economic divide that also exists between urban and rural areas of the state,” the letter said. “It is economically and educationally imperative that you act on behalf of those thousands of Oregonians and those millions of Americans who deserve access to the same opportunity that broadband affords.”