Washington (OTL) – With ever-expanding technology, it is rather remarkable that the next revolution in internet connectivity may be coming through radio chips.
Dell computers announced that it had plans to start putting radio chips into their future laptops as a means for users to connect to the internet via white space. White space is the common term for the unused space on the television spectrum. This announcements comes on the heels of an important decision by the FCC to open up these unused spaces for public internet access.
The FCC’s decision was made in an attempt to make high-speed internet connections much more reasonably priced.
Computer companies were quick to recognize the potential value of this decision. Not only is it said that TV signals can carry much farther and with less interference, therefore providing better access for users, but the radio chips needed to tap into this unused white space is significantly smaller, making them easier to install in a wide variety of devices.
Dell has plans to include these chips in many of its future products as a way to give users more versatility in their internet connections. These radio chips would be especially useful in areas where Wi-Fi connections are hard to establish and would even fit in phones or smaller devices.
While Dell is the first to try to cash in on the FCC’s decision, Hewlett-Packard and Google have also expressed interest in developing technology to utilize this newly opened space.