FCC posts 'help wanted' for white spaces database managers

In another significant leap forward in the Federal Communications Commission's campaign to get unlicensed broadband, or "white space" devices, into the market, the FCC says that it is now accepting proposals from companies that want to run the databases that will prevent these gadgets from interfering with other broadcast services. There's money in this, in case you were wondering. "Database administrators may charge fees to register fixed TV band devices" and "to provide lists of available channels to TV band devices," the Commission's Public Notice notes.

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