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A Hispanic Perspective on White Spaces

Today, HTTP asked the Federal Communications Commission postpone its November 4 vote to authorize the use of white space spectrum by unlicensed devices. Some advocates have come out in support of immediate adoption of the white spaces proposal because they believe that the use of white spaces provides a mechanism to expand broadband access. HTTP submitted a letter to the FCC Chairman, Kevin Martin, to bring attention to important aspects of this issue that have been ignored by these advocates. HTTP is concerned that the negative impact of interference from white space devices on broadcast programming serving the Hispanic community would be magnified by the DTV transition.