Cisco's War on White Space Broadband

If They Can't Develop the Technology...No One Can

by Karl Bode Thursday 17-Nov-2011

The last few years have seen no limit of often ridiculous efforts to try and shelve white space broadband, which uses the unlicensed spectrum vacated by the shift to digital television for a new wireless broadband technology. Those efforts have largely involved broadcasters using celebrities like Dolly Parton and cartoon characters to overstate the technology's interference potential. Public Knowledge Legal Director Harold Feld has a long but interesting read on how Cisco has been waging war on white space broadband for years, in large part because they missed the boat in terms of bringing comperable technology to market:

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