The FCC’s National Broadband Plan should promote universal wirele...
The FCC’s National Broadband Plan should promote universal wireless broadband and “establish a city-wide pervasive computing test bed,” said the Wireless Communications Association. Pervasive computing harnesses wireless technology to collect and distribute real-time data about people’s health, home energy…
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usage, and smart classrooms, among other things, the association said in an ex parte filing at the commission. The collaborative test bed should be federally funded and use requests for proposal to select community and public institutions, network operators, vendors and software developers to participate, it said. The test bed would require interconnected wireless and wireline networks, and “could be combined with existing or new spectrum technology test beds,” the association said. “Pervasive computing could be tested alongside spectrum sharing technologies intended for use with the existing joint FCC-NTIA spectrum test bed,” or “along with other new spectrum technologies in the 40-42 GHz V-Band spectrum … or in other lightly-used bands.”