Darrell Proctor is a publishing industry veteran with more than 30 years' experience writing about business, technology and sports. He spent more than a decade at the St. Petersburg Times and later the Rocky Mountain News, where he authored the Mile High Tech blog and was noted for his reviews of consumer electronics and technology. Questions for Darrell? Drop him a line at techexaminer@gmail.com.

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July 28, 7:30 AM

by Darrell Proctor, Business Examiner

The Wireless Innovation Alliance includes a variety of companies.

Companies continue to wrestle with how to provide mobile high-speed Internet service across cities and throughout rural areas.

And now they're looking to television to provide an answer.

Engineers from several companies have been testing "white spaces," the unlicensed airwaves between TV stations.

Jake Ward, a spokesman for the Wireless Innovation Alliance, told The Washington Post that using white spaces "will provide a way to provide broadband across long distances at much faster speeds than cellphone networks and Wi-Fi."

The WIA includes such companies as H-P, Dell and Google.

Go here to read more.

For more info: The University of Kansas Information and Telecommunications Technology Center has done its own research into white spaces, and researchers say personal electronic devices can be used in the spaces without interfering with television signals. Read about it here.

Topics: Wireless , Internet , White spaces , Spectrum

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