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MAP and NAF Urge More Testing for White-Spaces Devices

Posted: Wednesday August 15, 2007

In a filing with the FCC’s Office of Engineering and Technology, Media Access Project and the New America Foundation commended an initial report demonstrating the viability of white-space devices to detect vacant TV channels without causing harmful interference to over-the-air television viewers or wireless microphone systems. Although MAP and NAF are encouraged by the results, they caution technical rules should be delayed until more comprehensive testing can be completed.

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