Category: TV White Spaces
GSM and Dynamic Spectrum
Adoption of Television White Spaces (TVWS) spectrum saw great progress in 2013. The Google-sponsored Cape Town TVWS trial was completed and the results were an unqualified success. TVWS trials got underway in Malawi. And Microsoft pushed ahead with pilots in...
Spectrum — To License or Not To License
In part one of this series on Spectrum 2.0, I highlighted just how complex radio spectrum management is and why experts can’t seem to agree on whether we are running out of spectrum or entering an age of abundance. ...
Malawi Leaps Ahead With White Spaces Pilot
Malawi is not a country that often makes the international news, particularly not in the realm of connectivity. Economically poor and landlocked, it faces significant challenges in achieving affordable access for all. While both the incumbent telco (MTL) and the...
Spectrum and Development
The following is a chapter I submitted to an upcoming collection of essays on Television White Spaces spectrum being put together by the Wireless Laboratory of the International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP). In the field that has come to...
Television White Spaces Spectrum in Africa
Last week I attended an event in Dakar entitled the TV White Spaces Africa Forum 2013. It was an event organised and largely sponsored by Google in partnership with a number of other organisations including Microsoft, Internet Society Senegal, Afrinic,...