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Will Super Wi-Fi Live Up To Its Name? The next generation of Wi-Fi was supposed to offer a big boost in capacity and range. ' It's likely that a few years from now, Americans' laptops, smart phones, and other wireless devices will be able to get online using "Super Wi-Fi," a new standard that will increase capacity in places where regular Wi-Fi networks have become overcrowded. The bad news: most people won't be able to use those airwaves to make long-range connections, which was supposed to be the major technological advance that would put the "super" in Super Wi-Fi. White Spaces, Blacked Out: Empty airwaves called white spaces could enable long-range "Super Wi-Fi," but FCC rules strictly limit their use in populated areas. Such areas show up in black on this map of white-space availability in the part of the VHF band that corresponds to TV channels 7 to 13. A similar problem also occurs in the UHF spectrum.Credit: Spectrum Bridge [...] Ultimately, Congress could decide to loosen the limits on Super Wi-Fi—over the objections of TV broadcasters. According to the broadcasting industry, not even current limitations are stringent enough, which is why it has been fighting to block the white-space rules. Should Congress decide that Super Wi-Fi is a better use for the nation's airwaves than local UHF TV stations, another upside of the new database is that it would be easy to crank up the power of Super Wi-Fi. Says Schmidt, of Spectrum Bridge, "They change the policy, we change a line of code—and voilà." ' technologyreview.com Jim

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