Google joined another wireless alliance this week, the Wireless Innovation Alliance, a coalition of technology companies and public interest groups devoted to opening up "white spaces" for broadband use.
The WIA says the use of white spaces will reveolutionize communications in America. "We are living through a critical juncture in communications history -- a moment when technological innovation has the opportunity to dramatically improve our access to information and quality of life,” said Michael Calabrese, Vice President of the New America Foundation and Director of its Wireless Future Program, in a statement.
“Much as telephones, radios, and TVs revolutionized telecommunications in previous generations, white space devices will transform every aspect of civil society. White space devices provide an innovative platform for a new generation of technologies, services, and applications -- they are the building blocks of a 21st century communications infrastructure."
Shortly after the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) rejected a white spaces device in August (FCC engineers neglected to test the backup device, much to Microsoft's chagrin) saying that it neglected to detect the presence of other signals, Google and the other tech companies formed the Open Handset Alliance, a network of 30 tech and mobile companies looking to develop interoperability between mobile devices on wireless networks.
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In addition to promoting the benefits of white space use, the WIA will work with government officials to bring white space use to reality. Google's Washington Telecom and Media Council
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