FCC engineers expose serious failings in prototype whitespace devices

As Europe starts to investigate other uses of vacant TV spectrum, US whitespace devices submitted by a consortium of IT giants have failed to live up to their promise of performance in tests carried out by the FCC.

This is a set back for the two cognitive radio devices built by Microsoft and Philips and backed by their consortium partners Google, Dell, Hewlett Packard, and Intel.

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