Alex Phillips, President, Rural
Broadband
Alex Phillips, President, Rural
Broadband
Network Services & High Speed Link Network Services & High Speed Link
Alex Phillips, President, Rural
Broadband
Alex Phillips, President, Rural
Broadband Network Services & High Speed Link Network Services & High Speed LinkProgram Summary:In November 2008 the Federal
Communications Commission (FCC) announced that it would allow for the
use of unused television spectrum vacated during the digital TV
conversion as unlicensed broadband service. Rural Broadband Network
Services has designed a complete solution that utilizes low power,
renewable energy, low cost components field tested operating systems.
The FCC decision opens channels 2 to 69 in four bands of frequencies in
VHF and UHF regions of the radio spectrum (54-72
MHz, 76-88 MHz, 174-216 MHz, and 470-806 MHz. The new unlicensed
spectrum is commonly termed "Television White Space" (TVWS). It can
make multi-megabit broadband Internet available to rural America where
it is currently too costly to provide.
The United States National
Telecommunications Administration (NITA) reports that 43,000,000
American households to not have broadband or any type of affordable
Internet service. The United Nations Development Program
estimates that there are only 195,000,000 worldwide broadband users.
This is the average of only three percent [3%] of the estimated world
population of 6.7 billion people. Television White Space radio systems will allow opportunities for
new services and technologies through the Wireless Internet Service
Provider (WISP) industry. The Virginia based company
is the first wireless Internet Service Provider (ISP) in the country to
deploy this system in native IPv6 (Internet
Protocol Version
6).
These emerging technologies will be provided to and through the 2,000
identified and waiting wireless ISPs and the United States Department of
Defense (USDOD). Rural Broadband Network Services and its
Highspeedlink.net is currently servicing residents, farmers,
and businesses in Rockingham, Page, Augusta, and Shenandoah counties of
the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia in the United States. This service
has been in broadband wireless high speed Internet since 2002. With
this base the RBNS can serve as a "best practice"
example for rural areas throughout the Commonwealth, the country, and
overseas. The TVWS new technologies will provide additional low cost,
portable, alternative energy powered 'green' Internet services.
As you may know EmeraldPlanet is
a worldwide non-profit organization dedicated to identifying at least
1,000 'best practices' for sustainable environmental and economic
development. Our efforts are to link those having such "best
practices" with those needing the technologies, processes, services, and
products to be outstanding ecological stewards of their resources.
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