White Spaces: Hot Issue

摘要

FCC Chairman Kevin Martin has told Congress that the commission did conduct a peer review of an FCC engineers' report on white spaces testing, and that it concluded the tests were "well done and thorough." He made the claim despite a chorus of protests from broadcasters, sports leagues, concert producers, religious broadcasters, legislators and musicians-from Dolly Parton to Guns N' Roses and 100 others. They're asking the commission to reconsider holding a vote on allowing mobile, unlicensed devices to operate in the so-called "white spaces" of the digital spectrum. The planned Nov. 4 vote remained on the commission's agenda.