A group of about twenty companies are registered in the United Kingdom to participate in a whitespace-pilot. Among others, Google and Microsoft will participate in the attempts to unused portions of the radio spectrum for new services.
The approximately twenty companies have signed up to Ofcom, the telecomautoriteit that the testing in the Uk leads, reports Telecoms.com. According to the British authorities going to be the largest pilot in Europe with regard to the deployment of unused spectrum, something that for new wireless applications. The British government has before itself the services of British Telecom and the start-up Neul has been used; they must, for example, unused portions of the radio spectrum use for traffic to send to motorists.
Microsoft is going to join the g-test to focus on the provision of internet through wi-fi. This will be the company from Redmond are going to do in Glasgow; the Scottish city has a relatively low penetration of broadband, so wi-fi networks outcome would offer. Google would be occupied with the development of technology to ensure that the use of whitespace spectrum is done without any existing wireless equipment to interfere.
In the past few years the large technology companies taking interest in so-called white spaces of the spectrum. By unused parts of spectrum to provide new wireless services, something Google and Microsoft, some time ago, started with. So started Microsoft already a trial to the internet in the United Kingdom, while Google is with whitespace, focused on the provision of internet access in South Africa.