"While some companies fight for spectrum, tower lease rights and other land usage, Carlson has moved into a space that has long been vacated after broadcasters ditched analog for digital broadcast in 2009"
Here: Rural Folks Rejoice: First Commercial Broadband Service Via TV White Space Rolls Out
5 Most Promising Applications for TV White Spaces (ref):
- Wide area coverage in rural areas (e.g. IEEE 802.22)
- Hotspot/low-power broadband (e.g. IEEE 802.11af)
- Backhaul for WiFi in hotels, campuses, businesses (WiFi could be IEEE 802.11af or IEEE 802.11a/b/g/n)
- Connectivity for security cameras
- Remote monitoring (power plants, patients, metering, …)
- Other domains of interest for TVWS applications that could be mentioned are ad-hoc networks (e.g. internal sensor network or mesh network communication), healthcare applications, vehicular communications and cellular networks offloading.
Idea: Demonstration of Vehicle to Vehicle Communications over TV White Space [IEEE Xplore]