[wirelesstoronto-discuss] [wirelesstoronto-board] WHITE SPACE = PUBLIC DOMAIN IN CANADA

[Hanna]

I think the CRTC ruling is a good thing.  A couple things that gave me pause
during a quick scan of the brief:

=> New forms of (targeted) advertising to be allowed.  (hm)
=> BDUs (broadcasters) now required to contribute 1% towards local
programming, above and beyond existing 5% levy for CANCON.  =)

a similar thing is going on in the US.  Read
MediaCitizen<http://mediacitizen.blogspot.com/2008/10/chicken-little-lobby-comes-to-new-york.html>
:

"The fight over white spaces pits those who *have* access to spectrum, and
want to keep it for themselves, against those who don't, and want spectrum
to be used to serve other purposes as well."


On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 9:33 AM, jason roks <jason at wirelesstoronto.ca> wrote:

> Love to get the thoughts of people on this list on the recent announcement
> from CRTC.
>
> There was an announcement this morning on the radio that the CRTC has
> deemed the white space (wavelengths/spectrums between TV channels that you
> used to see when you changes channels using knobs) as public domain -- very
> interesting!
>
> =j
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hanna

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