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White Space Internet experiment launched in CLaudville

2009-10-22 08:48 by

 

A first-of-its-kind experiment to bring high-speed Internet access to rural areas got under way Wednesday in the small Patrick County community of Claudville.

Ninth District U.S. Rep. Rick Boucher, D-Abingdon, announced during an online video-conference that "white space technology" is being used to bring high-speed Internet access to the community.

The video conference, which linked Boucher's office in Washington with Trinity Christian School in Claudville, was broadcast using the new method, "so we know it's working," Boucher said.

"That signal that we saw on our screens (as we were) taking part today was the first signal to use white spaces in the United States," Boucher said. He described white spaces as "the unused spectrum between television channels."

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