1st 'Super Wi-Fi' Net Goes Live In North Carolina 60
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from the greased-lightning dept.
alphadogg writes "Lucky residents of Wilmington, N.C., will be the first in the nation to have access to a 'Super Wi-Fi' network. Officials from New Hanover County, N.C., announced Thursday that they had become the first in the United States to deploy a mobile data network on so-called 'white spaces' spectrum that the FCC first authorized for unlicensed use in 2008."
WTF? (Score:5, Funny)
From TFA: "The county was able to make a quick transition in using the spectrum for a mobile data network because it was the first to successfully transition from analog to digital television."
It was at this point that I stopped reading.
(In other news: The orange harvest was great this year because of our success with the apple harvest of a few years ago.)
Re:Wow. (Score:3, Funny)
It helps that Wilmington has their own Battleship sitting in the Cape Fear River.
Run a pirate flag up that sucker and dare AT&T and Verizon to unplug that network =-)