Coalition Letter to Congress in Support of TV White Space Legislation

High-Tech, Consumer, Public Interest, and Community Technology Groups Support Opening Vacant TV Channels for Unlicensed Wireless Broadband

June 14, 2007 |

The organizations listed below have joined together to urge members of Congress to support TV White Space Legislation. Click here to view the full letter.

Co-signers:

New America Foundation
Microsoft Corporation
Association for Competitive Technology
Dell
NYCWireless
Hewlett-Packard
Consumer Federation of America
Intel
Media Access Project
EarthLink, Inc.
Leadership Conference on Civil Rights
Google, Inc.
CompTIA
Wireless Internet Service Providers Association
National Hispanic Media Coalition
Free Press
PointOne
CTCnet
Southern California Tribal Digital Village
i3 Networks
The VON Coalition
National Telecommunications Cooperative Association
Philips
EDUCAUSE
Business Software Alliance
USA Datanet
American Electronics Association
Public Knowledge
Information Technology Industry Council

Attachments

White Spaces Letter (PDF, 5pp.)

Issues:

Allocating the TV white spaces for unlicensed use will stimulate the development of innovative devices, enable more economical broadband deployment in rural and other underserved areas, and ensure the efficient utilization of unused "beachfront" spectrum below 1 GHz.