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The FCC Office of Engineering and Technology said it will...

The FCC Office of Engineering and Technology said it will start a 45-day public trial of Google’s TV band database system on Monday. “As part of its authorization process for TV band database systems, the Commission stated that each database…

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will be subject to a public trial period of not less than 45 days to ensure that the database is providing accurate results before it is allowed to be made available for regular public use,” OET said (http://bit.ly/XHCfMs). “OET has examined the Google database system’s channel availability calculator and registration facilities and finds that these capabilities are ready for trial testing by the public.” The FCC has already completed tests on two database administrators, Spectrum Bridge and Telcordia Technologies. White-spaces devices designed to use vacant TV channels to access the Internet must first check that channels are locally available through the use of a white-spaces database, under the FCC’s rules.