Looks like students at WVU will now have a great reason to go to class. The university has announced what is now calling "broadband" internet access. But it's the way the university is providing it, skipping the standard wifi-hot spot. Read on...
West Virginia University has announced that it is now providing broadband Internet access to its campus and the surrounding area via unlicensed and unused television channels. This move away from traditional wi-fi hotspots makes the university the first in the nation to use television channels to provide Internet connectivity, said Michael Calabrese, director of the New America Foundation’s Wireless Future Project, which assisted in the transition.Julius Genachowski, a former chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, described the notion of providing Internet service through television channels as “super wi-fi” because such connectivity can be broadcast for great distances and can penetrate large obstacles that standard wi-fi hotspots struggle to overcome.
Source: West Virginia U. Provides ‘Super Wi-Fi’ Through Unused TV Channels
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