[kictanet] Use of TV white space by Indigo and Microsoft

Wed Feb 6 17:40:29 EAT 2013

Hi all,

Please take note that this saga is playing out in the USA with traditional
telcos fighting to protect their turf while former content companies
threaten survival of the telcos.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/tech-telecom-giants-take-sides-as-fcc-proposes-large-public-wifi-networks/2013/02/03/eb27d3e0-698b-11e2-ada3-d86a4806d5ee_story.html

Excerpt:
"The federal government wants to create super WiFi networks across the
nation, so powerful and broad in reach that consumers could use them to
make calls or surf the Internet without paying a cellphone bill every month.

The proposal from the Federal Communications Commission has rattled the
$178 billion wireless industry, which has launched a fierce lobbying effort
to persuade policymakers to reconsider the idea, analysts say. That has
been countered by an equally intense campaign from
Google<http://washpost.bloomberg.com/marketnews/stockdetail/?symbol=GOOG>
,Microsoft<http://washpost.bloomberg.com/marketnews/stockdetail/?symbol=MSFT>
 and other tech giants who say a free-for-all WiFi service would spark an
explosion of innovations and devices that would benefit most Americans,
especially the poor."

On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 2:22 PM, Daniel Obam <daniel_obam at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Ng'ethe,
> In other jurisdictions where this is being trialled, a white space device
> will not be authourised to start transmitting until getting clearance from
> an online database qualified by Sector Regulator. This database is
> expected to provide updated information on where the white spaces are and
> the power level that devices would need to be restricted to if they wanted
> to use them(i.e. white spaces).
>
> It would be interesting to know if such a database has been established in
> Kenya to help mitigate against interference with other existing and planned
> services should the pilot ever qualify to be upgraded to commercial use.
>
> Also recall that the "white spaces" were meant to refer to the guard bands
> between TV channels in the TV broadcasting bands; therefore the migration
> from analogue to digital TV broadcasting and the allocation and use of the
> "Digital Dividend ( 1st and 2nd dividend)" will impact on how this white
> space experiment eventually pans out.
>   Regards
> Daniel Obam
> Communications Radio Technology Expert
> National Communications Secretariat
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>
>   *From:* "ngethe.kariuki2007 at yahoo.co.uk" <ngethe.kariuki2007 at yahoo.co.uk
> >
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>
> Mark,listers
> It is a pilot project using new technology and in my view the regulator
> would take an interest and determine if there is need for any regulatory
> intervention.
>
> John Kariuki.
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