{"id":579,"date":"2008-06-05T10:49:28","date_gmt":"2008-06-05T17:49:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tgdarkly.com\/blog\/?p=579"},"modified":"2008-06-05T10:49:28","modified_gmt":"2008-06-05T17:49:28","slug":"microsoft-google-and-white-spaces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/2008\/06\/05\/microsoft-google-and-white-spaces\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft, Google, and White Spaces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft, Google and other information technology and electronics companies <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciam.com\/article.cfm?id=fight-in-white-space\">are lobbying the FCC<\/a> for access to the expanded &#8220;white spaces&#8221; between digital television broadcast signals.  White spaces are buffer zones that prevent signals for different television channels from interfering with each other.  They offer the potential for gigabit-speed Wi-Fi access.  Existing Wi-Fi technologies, however, cannot exploit this space without creating interference with television signals.  Television broadcasters therefore are resisting the approval of white space Wi-Fi devices.<\/p>\n<p>This presents some interesting questions about the information infrastructure commons.  Television broadcasters and equipment manufacturers have invested heavily in what could be considered pre-infrastructure &#8212; broadcast equipment, programming, and television sets &#8212; for use on the digital broadcast spectrum infrastructure.  Does that investment privilege television use of the spectrum infrastructure over Wi-Fi use?  Are television and Wi-Fi truly separate uses given the convergence of video with Wi-Fi?  Will my neighbor&#8217;s video conference call interfere with my sacred right to wach &#8220;Lost&#8221; in high def?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft, Google and other information technology and electronics companies are lobbying the FCC for access to the expanded &#8220;white spaces&#8221; between digital television broadcast signals. White spaces are buffer zones that prevent signals for different television channels from interfering with each other. They offer the potential for gigabit-speed Wi-Fi access. Existing Wi-Fi technologies, however, cannot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-science-technology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p824rZ-9l","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}