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White band (broadband over the old analog tv waves)?

Edward78
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Why did it never take off? I heard about it, crap uh 15 years ago, why nothing even now?

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Would be one-way only and pretty slow per user, a bit like satellite...

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20 hours ago, Edward78 said:

Why did it never take off? I heard about it, crap uh 15 years ago, why nothing even now?

I assume you mean the lower frequencies?  Because I know in some countries they did re-use 800Mhz for LTE, the UK for one.

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23 hours ago, Edward78 said:

Why did it never take off? I heard about it, crap uh 15 years ago, why nothing even now?

I know some of the TV band was used for LTE like @Alex Atkin UK has stated. T Mobile for example purchased a majority of 600 Mhz, and it using it to deploy low band 5G. 

 

I would like to add that supposedly ATSC 3.0 would allow internet over the TV bands, at least from the little I have read. However ATSC 3.0 it just in the starts of potentially being deployed thru out the US. Even then I suspect it would be limited in terms of internet capabilities. Another thing the lower bands while good for range kinda suck for speed. So I would expect internet on these bands to be slow. I think most governments are either adding more bands for cellular data or for WiFi. I recently herd that the FCC is adding more to the 5 Ghz band, also 6Ghz has also been added to the WIFi 6 standard (WiFi 6E). 

I just want to sit back and watch the world burn. 

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