Use of whitespace closer to becoming reality

Considerable progress was made in 2008 towards the use of interleaved
or white space spectrum between digital broadcasts in the UHF bands,
although broadcasters on both sides of the Atlantic continued to try
and block its use.

The key breakthrough was in the US, where the Federal Communications
Commission (FCC) set an international precedent by allowing the white
space to be used for providing wireless broadband services once the
analogue broadcast signal is switched off in February 2009.

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becoming-reality