The "Internet of Things", or "Physical World Connection" is becoming a reality.
When everyone and everything has access to broadband, the Internet will deliver numerous applications, companies and revenue opportunities.
Everything from thermostats, smart meters, digital cameras, sprinkler systems, airplanes to mobile phones and laptops will soon have broadband access capabilities.
Internet For Everyone and soon everything. Cheap broadband wireless services will soon be available to all.
Google calls it "Wi-Fi on steroids". Today some 1 billion Wi-Fi chips are shipped each year. "
Now that the FCC has set the rules, I'm sure that we'll see similar growth in products to take advantage of this spectrum," Google's Larry Page wrote.
Microsoft calls "white spaces" the greatest improvement in Internet access since the advent of Wi-Fi."
White Spaces offers a "ton of bandwidth"
From Yahoo FCC Approves Google-Backed Plan For Airwaves Use
The five-member FCC voted to open unlicensed pockets of the spectrum known as white space that will become available when U.S. broadcasters are required to move to digital television next year.
Companies like Google and Microsoft, as well as consumer groups, said access to the white space airwaves would encourage innovation in cellular telephones and wireless devices, much as WiFi did.
"Let's hope it's not just Wi-Fi on steroids but Wi-Fi on amphetamines," FCC Commissioner Jonathan Adelstein said.
While a lot of companies make white space radios (modems), the white space rules mandate that unlicensed users of this spectrum also be able to sense licensed users and not interfere with them (that was a key argument for opposition). That means companies that make white space radios will need more than just radio expertise: they will need sensing expertise.
According to Josh Silver, (Free Press) white spaces adoption would champion four core principles:
-- Access (fat pipes in every home),
-- choice (real competition between providers),
-- openness (this appears to be a code word for some flavor of 'Net neutrality),
-- innovation (job creation and economic growth).
More white space ponderings.
Our company uncovered a small company with modulation techniques (and over $200m in VC funding from Cisco, SBC Communications, US Venture Partners, ComVentures along with $100m from US Govt) that is positioning themselves to be the "Qualcomm of 700MHz and White Space" (modulating standard).
This Silicon Valley player is already receiving white space radio orders.
The report is titled "White Space Represents A White Hot Opportunity"
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