White space in telecommunications refers to unused frequencies in the radio waves portion of the electromagnetic spectrum.
National and international bodies assign differing frequencies for specific uses, and in some cases license the rights to these. This frequency allocation process creates a bandplan which in some cases for technical reasons assigns white space between used bands to avoid interference. In this case, while the frequencies are unused they have been specifically assigned for a purpose.
As well as this technical assignment, there is also unused spectrum which has either never been used, or is becoming free as a result of technical changes. In particular, the planned switchover to digital television may free up large areas between 54MHz and 698MHz. Various proposals including from the White Spaces Coalition propose to use this to provide broadband Internet access. However, these efforts may impact wireless microphones and other technologies that have historically relied on these frequencies.
Thank you captain obvious. What was the point of your post other then to post something from Wikipedia that we already knew? Well beyond the actual frequencies that is. Or is this just a FIRST! Post disguised as something trying to be meaningful?
*drinks his caffeine* Its too early in the morning for this shit....
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White space in telecommunications refers to unused frequencies in the radio waves portion of the electromagnetic spectrum.
National and international bodies assign differing frequencies for specific uses, and in some cases license the rights to these. This frequency allocation process creates a bandplan which in some cases for technical reasons assigns white space between used bands to avoid interference. In this case, while the frequencies are unused they have been specifically assigned for a purpose.
As well as this technical assignment, there is also unused spectrum which has either never been used, or is becoming free as a result of technical changes. In particular, the planned switchover to digital television may free up large areas between 54MHz and 698MHz. Various proposals including from the White Spaces Coalition propose to use this to provide broadband Internet access. However, these efforts may impact wireless microphones and other technologies that have historically relied on these frequencies.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_space_(telecommunications)
Thank you captain obvious. What was the point of your post other then to post something from Wikipedia that we already knew? Well beyond the actual frequencies that is. Or is this just a FIRST! Post disguised as something trying to be meaningful?
*drinks his caffeine* Its too early in the morning for this shit....
Well, speaking for the lazy people who didn't want to search, I thank you.
Although, I would have been just as happy with just the link, and you could have saved Jon Doe his regular morning gripefest.