The UK’s Ofcom plans to launch national White Space mobile Internet by 2013. “White Space,” as Engadget explains (here), “is the general term for unused but allocated spectrum, in this case it’s frequencies normally reserved for analog TV.”
UK TO OFFER WHITE SPACE MOBILE WEB BY 2013
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Sep 2 2011 - 12:00pm 
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