Huntsville, in the north, boasts some of the nation's highest technology, rippling out from the space industry that began with the arrival after the second world war of the Nazis' rocket-man, Wernher von Braun.

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Plans to pilot the use of white space technology were announced by Ofcom today at an event for industry stakeholders.

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