Microsoft representatives discussed the importance of the TV white spaces...

Genachowski, and others at the commission, said an ex parte filing. Vice President Dan Reed “commended the Commission for its work on television white spaces policy issues; highlighted the benefits of unlicensed access to spectrum below 1 GHz in the TV white spaces, including superior propagation characteristics and range compared with existing Wi-Fi frequencies; described advances and investment in white spaces technologies, including trials on Microsoft’s Redmond, Wash., campus and a major new trial in the United Kingdom; and described white spaces advances in countries around the world and in standards-setting organizations,” the company said. Reed also highlighted potential white spaces applications for whole-home or whole-building wireless networking, campus-wide networks, entertainment and gaming, government uses including environmental monitoring and security, rural broadband access, educational networks, machine-to-machine communications and inventory and logistics. Reed “also discussed the increasing importance of unlicensed technologies across the economy,” the filing said. “In particular, he noted studies showing that traffic using unlicensed spectrum will soon surpass traffic using wired networks; the use of unlicensed spectrum to offload traffic from licensed wireless networks; the importance of unlicensed spectrum for the growing ‘Internet of Things;’ and the use of unlicensed spectrum in various user scenarios such as for intelligent transportation, automotive applications and gaming."