[BC] Airwaves Abandoned by TV Could Beam High-Speed Internet Everywhere | Popular Science

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Correct, but not necessarily WiMax.  It can be any kind of voice or  
data wireless service.  Media Flow is mobile TV, for the most part.   
It was originally intended to be delivered to cell phones, but now  
they have their own "TV sets."

--chip

On Feb 4, 2010, at 3:40 PM, broadcast-request at radiolists.net wrote:

> Message: 11
> From: Mike McCarthy <towers at mre.com>
> 	Internet Everywhere | Popular Science
>
> Kevin,
>
> You are partially incorrect.  "White Spaces" is a complete misnomer  
> for
> the use of "open" core TV channels left over after the DTV conversion.
> Not anything above 698Mhz.  The spectrum bid by the telco's is  
> between 698
> and 746 Mhz (TV52-59). This would include MediaFLO's TV 55 and  
> warehoused
> 56.  And is no way related to White Space.
>
> The auctioned spectrum is for a new service called WiMax.
>
> MM