Microsoft challenges FCC on new devices
Seattle PI | at | by Mike
Microsoft challenged a U.S. government report that says a prototype mobile Internet device may interfere with broadcast television signals and wireless microphones.
A damaged component skewed last month's findings by the Federal Communications Commission's Office of Engineering and Technology, Microsoft wrote in a letter to the FCC Monday.
Microsoft and Google Inc. are part of a group of companies that submitted devices that work with television airwaves known as white spaces, which are unused in several U.S. cities. The companies want the airwaves to offer free Internet access and other applications after broadcasters convert to digital signals in 2009.