By submitting our proposal, Spectrum Bridge can now be officially considered for, and selected as, a database manager by the FCC.
UPDATE: (1/5/2010) - follow this link to see all the 9 proposals submitted from:
- Spectrum Bridge
- Nuestar
- Comsearch
- Telcordia
- KeyBridge
- WSdb
- Frequency Finder Inc.
- KB Enterprises LLC
The FCC has ruled that white space devices (like wireless PCs and netbooks, smartphones, wireless music and video players, eBook readers, etc) must talk to a database to get a list of allowable frequencies it can use before it can start transmitting. The database manager insures that these devices get accurate and up-to-date frequency information.
TV white spaces hold tremendous promise for deploying a variety of applications including:
- Wireless Internet connectivity for rural and other under served communities
- Cost-effective Muniwireless and community wireless access
- High speed broadband communications for enterprises and private business networks
- Content distribution throughout a city or community
- Whole house and office video, music and data networking
Because of this, naming TV white spaces database managers is an important step in bringing this valuable wireless spectrum to market.
We expect several other companies, agencies and organizations to submit proposals as well. We'll all know in a day or two who as applied since the deadline for proposals was this afternoon, and the FCC usually posts public records (as these proposals are) within about 24 hours of receiving them.
You can find Spectrum Bridge's official response and proposal here.
To learn more about TV white spaces, what a white spaces database is, or to find which TV white spaces frequencies are available at your home or office - see our previous blog post here.
Rick Rotondo
CMO & Co-Founder
Spectrum Bridge Inc
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