FCC News and Policy Updates

February 5, 2007 Microsoft Zune Request (Click here to view the FCC filing) In a filing on February 5, 2007, described as a Cognitive Radio Test Set-Up Microsoft Corp., Google Inc., Dell, HP, Intel and Philips discussed plans to submit a prototype of a new handheld device to U.S. regulators for testing. Microsoft is developing the prototype, which the coalition will submit to the FCC's Office of Engineering and Technology. The device would "provide consumer broadband access and networking," the filing said. The FCC is considering whether to let companies offer wireless Internet access on handheld devices that would use vacant television airwaves, known as white spaces. A law enacted last year requires TV stations to convert to digital technology by February 2009, freeing up their old airwaves.