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kdawson writes “A year after choosing by casting votes unanimously to open ‘white space’ frequencies for unlawful use, the FCC has right away released a open notice looking database proposals (PDF). Howard Feld explains in his blog posting: ‘At last! We can get relocating on this again, and hopefully move brazen on the many earnest “disruptive” record now in the hopper. And move we are, in a really rare fashion. Rather than finalise the superb questions about how the database provider will pick up money, work the database, or either the database will be disdainful or non-exclusive, the Public Notice asks would-be database managers to contention proposals which would cover these issues. …

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