eNATOA “Understanding Unlicensed Spectrum and White Spaces: What do They Mean for Localities and Consumers?”
April 14, 2008
Unlicensed spectrum is generally credited for the explosive transformative growth of WiFi, informal wireless networking, and community wireless. “White spaces” have the potential to add to this growth by making available unused broadcast spectrum. In this session, learn about how unlicensed spectrum works, learn about its pluses and minuses for networking, and learn about the prospects for the FCC to make available “white space” spectrum and to designate more spectrum as unlicensed. This session will also include a summary survey of technologies that operate in unlicensed spectrum, including WiFi, WiMax, Bluetooth, and Ultra WideBand.