4G must enter the white space

I have said that 4G is a technology that will for ever be an evolution in progress. Their are many facets that make up the complexity of what makes it tick. Such as rules and regulations, bandwidth, spectrum, frequency. So when the FCC does it's best to keep the playing field level, they often, and most of the time do what they do with the consumer in mind.

Now when the FCC made room for wireless via the 700 MHz TV band, they new this would advance this space in the best possible path for innovation. What they also did here was give this resource, over 200MHz of the 700MHz band to us, the consumers, as license free "tvws". 

The 700 MHz band has been coined as the water front spectrum "sweet spot". If the FCC had not deregulated the phone company, or had not made 2.4 GHz license free, there would be no cell phones, or wireless at all. So we can all thank the FCC for that. 

2.4GHz "wifi" was considered a trash band, no one expected this to be of any use, as microwave's, garage door opener's, cordless phones all used this frequency, as it is license free. These things were around before wifi. I think we can all agree that wifi works quite well considering it is everywhere. The 700 MHz has been called super wifi. This in not wifi. This will be much better then wifi. 

There are a couple of carrier's that did not want to see the FCC make available this valuable water front spectrum that they paid 20 Billion to obtain. Again they, the FCC is looking at tomorrow, and making sure these technology's can co-exist, and the consumer can end up being the beneficiary's of this invisible real estate.And this band, 700 MHz "tvws" is not a trash band. 

What device maker will be bold enough to integrate the white space band in tomorrow's device? Let me say this, the one, or one's that do see what tomorrow's 4G looks like, will certainly have the upper hand. Spectrum is scarce, and it would seem like any of it, license or license free would be a large plus for device makers, carrier's, and end user's. Cell phones have five or six radios in them now, so adding one more is no big thing, it may ad under five dollars to the price of the device. One thing for sure, it is time for the integration to begin, and for them to get this on their road map for tomorrow.