Tech Firms Push to Use TV Airwaves for Internet

Hhmmm,sounds OK here. :)

Getting away from these crappy copper phone lines here where I can only get around 2000 max on my "up to 8000" adsl2 account. :angry:

A coalition of big technology companies wants to bring high-speed Internet access to consumers in a new way: over television airwaves. Key to the project is whether a device scheduled to be delivered to federal labs today lives up to its promise.

The coalition, which includes Microsoft and Google, wants regulators to allow idle TV channels, known as white space, to be used to beam the Internet into homes and offices. But the Federal Communications Commission first must be convinced that such traffic would not bleed outside its designated channels and interfere with existing broadcasts.

The six partners -- Microsoft, Google, Dell, Hewlett-Packard, Intel and Philips -- say they can meet that challenge. Today, they plan to give FCC officials a prototype device, built by Microsoft, that will undergo months of testing.

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They could probably just convert all television over to some digital carriers (they were supposed to do that here in the U.S. by now anyways, someone's dragging their feet). They could then use the old existing cable tv lines for the Internet, etc. But hopefully there won't be snow on some websites as some tv channels have. :lol:

Personally, I am not one for wireless anything. Just that much more to troubleshoot.

Wireless has had problems with weather since the days of Alexander Graham Bell.

Satellite TV, radio, internet? No thank-you.