The white space debate over how (or whether) to utilize unused frequencies in the broadcast spectrum has been going on for nearly two years now, and, despite all the ups and downs (and fear mongering ), the various members of the White Spaces Coalition have continued to fight the good fight in the hopes of bringing faster downloads to more places. The latest initiative/olive branch is the formation of the White Spaces Database Group, mapping areas of unused spectrum and enabling devices to verify what frequencies are available based on positional information (likely GPS or cell tower triangulation). It’s still early days so there aren’t any details about the database itself yet, except that the group intends to keep things “open and non-proprietary” and will work with the FCC to populate it. Now, can’t we all just get along and work toward a summer of worry-free wireless? [Via ars technica ] Filed under: Wireless White Spaces Coalition launches DB Group, letting devices find their own piece of the spectrum originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 05 Feb 2009 09:42:00 EST

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White Spaces Coalition launches DB Group, letting devices find their own piece of the spectrum