Says the analyst: "Dolan is probably hoping that Ergen will want to use that spectrum for high digital television, " a technology that's expected to gain steam in the near future.
Economides said the agency had the opportunity to make the wrong choice back in the 1990s, when cellular carriers were bidding on spectrum for new digital systems and had to decide among the GSM, TDMA and CDMA standards.
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The industry spent much of that time fighting over a plan to move FM and AM to a new spectrum band to accommodate digital.
The switch to all-digital TV has released chunks of broadcasting spectrum for other uses.
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Trunked radio is digital, allows more efficient use of spectrum, and does not tie a radio to a specific talk channel.
Why do most broadcast television stations continue to resist using the free spectrum they hold to process digital content beyond their single feed of programming?
It is convinced that the way to drive the process smoothly is by grassroot involvement and is looking to the next stage for digital switchover - the auction of the spectrum freed up by switchover.
So-called white spaces devices are currently being trialled for use in the spectrum gaps freed up by the digital TV switchover.
Wireless spectrum is a central resource in the digital economy, and a chief enabler of services like Netflix.
But without more spectrum, the whole enterprise of building the digital infrastructure could slow.
This was not its original vision of a thriving competitive market that would take Britain into the digital age by 2010, and so free up the analogue spectrum to be auctioned for other purposes.
BusinessWeek is reporting that a couple of sources have relayed that Apple is contemplating a bid in next year's FCC auction for the coveted 700MHz band, spectrum being freed by the move from analog to digital television.
In today's digital age, that call is going out to an even wider spectrum.
The governments agreed on a common standard for digital communications, and to enable it they freed a common bloc of spectrum across the continent.
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According to Triton Digital, which tracks Web traffic, Pandora, which streams a full spectrum of music 24 hours a day, generates the biggest numbers. (NPR.org, the network's overall website, ranks sixth, with NPR Music accounting for 15% of its audience.) Sites like Pitchfork, which appeals largely to indie-rock fans who appreciate not just music and videos but at-times-scalding reviews, are also playing the game.
Furthermore, the LightSpeaker's 2.5-inch wide dispersion driver uses digital signal processing to optimize high- and low-frequency output for a full spectrum of sound.
Viviane Reding, European Commissioner for Information Society and Media, has expressed a preference for the spectrum to be used for broadband internet access and to help bridge the digital divide especially in rural areas.
Simply put, there is no inventory of available spectrum, and the FCC has been unable to free any up since the digital TV transition in 2008.
The spectrum won't be available until February 2009, when TV broadcasters transition to digital transmissions.
And, because the digital signal occupies only 65% of the excess allotted bandwidth, stations can use the leftover spectrum to transmit text information like the artist's name, song title or more advertising.
And new innovations such as printed circuit technology and the white space radio spectrum (transmitting data over unused TV channel airwaves as we switch from analogue to digital TV) are all helping to create a world where everything can talk to everything else, and everything to us.
There are obstacles: in many countries this part of the spectrum is licensed, and the way it is used is changing as television services move to digital.
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