US funding for TV white space project in South Africa

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US funding for TV white space project in South Africa

The Wireless Access Providers Association (WAPA) has received funding from the US Trade and Development Agency to aid in the rollout of a TV White Space (TVWS) network.

TV white spaces are portions of spectrum reserved for terrestrial TV broadcasting, but which are not actually used to broadcast channels.
 
White space is not going to go down well, I`m sure Twitter tards are gonna have a field day and demand it be called something else
 
Oh god they said "white".

All white things are bad remember.
 
Thor said:
How is that possible with 400Mz?
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Why is that so difficult to believe? You only need 96MHz to deliver 96Mbps if you do no special encoding of the signal. With multiplexing like CDM (which they already use in cell phones) you get many multiples of that speed.
 
netcruiser said:
Why is that so difficult to believe? You only need 96MHz to deliver 96Mbps if you do no special encoding of the signal. With multiplexing like CDM (which they already use in cell phones) you get many multiples of that speed.
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3G is 1920Mz and it can't achieve that.

Lower frequency = longer distance, lower throughput
Higher frequency = shorter distance. higher throughput

What am I missing?
 
Thor said:
3G is 1920Mz and it can't achieve that.

Lower frequency = longer distance, lower throughput
Higher frequency = shorter distance. higher throughput

What am I missing?
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It's not about the frequency it is about the bandwidth (i.e. the "width" of the frequency spectrum)

3G typically uses a bandwidth of around 1Mhz per data stream, using a 30 year old encoding. Your Wifi typically uses 10, 20 or 40 Mhz of bandwidth per channels. Not sure which standards they will use on the 400MHz band.
 
There you go - all the rural areas are now covered. No need for the WOAN to duplicate! :p
 
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