Google's Wi-Fi Dreams

With next year's US transition to digital television sparking fierce debate over how to use the newly vacant TV channels, Google has offered a plan that it says could vastly improve U.S. broadband service.

For several years, policy makers, technology companies, and broadcasters have been debating the best use for this newly available wireless real estate. This "white space" between operating TV channels is of particular interest to broadband companies, because wireless signals sent at these frequencies will have the ability to penetrate walls and other obstructions more easily than do cell-phone or Wi-Fi signals. More here from Technology Review.