MAP Urges Congress to Support White Spaces
Posted: Thursday August 23, 2007
Together with Free Press and the New America Foundation, Media Access Project sent a letter to members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee and the Senate Commerce Committee urging them to ignore broadcaster spin on the FCC’s ‘White Spaces’ experiments. Broadcasters have made exaggerated claims that recent testing of white-spaces devices reveal that such devices would “permanently” undermine over-the-air television by imposing an “unacceptable risk” of harmful interference. In fact the testing clearly confirmed that current technologies can detect TV broadcast signals and operate on vacant TV channels at strength levels well below what is necessary to protect television reception.
Read the letter