Internet on TV waves

A team of professionals from Microsoft, Philips, Google, Intel, HP and many other famous names are trying to create a new type of internet connection, using the frequency of the old analogical television. As analogical television programs via radio waves are considered inefficient from the point of using the spectrum, regulatory organisms have decided that in a few years televisions will broadcast only digitally. Thus, new technologies can be used for radio broadcasting on the frequencies, which are still free. The European Union for example will switch from analogical to digital until 2012. Some western countries will perform this switch earlier, since 2010. In the USA, the switch from analogical to digital will take place until February 2009.

Obviously, the leaders of global technology could not miss the opportunity. The news about internet broadcasting on the television frequency has emerged when the Federal Commission for Communications in the USA (FCC) has rejected a proposal coming from North America Philips Electronics, Microsoft, Earth Link, Google, Hewlett-Packard, and Dell and so on. The technological alliance of these scientists has proposed the broadcast of the internet signal on frequencies, which are not used by television. FCC has rejected the documentation, motivating that the new type of broadcast can cause interferences. Yet, Kevin Martin, the president of the American regulatory organism has explained that he does not reject the idea. The American agency wants to find a way to broadcast the internet on frequencies, which are not used.

Edmond Thomas, the representative of this technological fusion says that the spectrum can be used without interfering with TV channels transmissions.