Analysts at IDC specifically cite TV white spaces as a way the Philippines can overcome rural area cost issues.
“To reach out and bring connectivity to far-flung locations, TV white space (TVWS) is being eyed as one of the solutions,” IDC said. In fact, the Philippines arguably is conducting the biggest test of TVWS in all of Asia.
Those tests could eventually make the Philippines the largest deployer of TVWS in Asia.
The government is plans to introduce free Wi-Fi services to half of its towns and cities in 2015 and nationwide coverage by the end of 2016, presumably using TV white spaces networks.
It wouldn’t be a stretch to argue that if the plan succeeds, similar initiatives could occur elsewhere in Southeast Asia, as Indonesia, for example, also is an island archipelago. The fact that the Philippines is a country of 7,107 islands accounts for the cost and difficulty of supplying quality Internet access. Those same conditions hold for Indonesia.
In 2014 the Philippines Department of Science and Technology said TV white spaces was being deployed at 100 sites, making the Philippines the largest commercial deployer of TV white spaces in Asia.
Undersecretary Louis Casambre of the DOST ICT Office said private company Nityo Infotech would be operating the network. The currently available TVWS equipment can deliver up to 6 megabits per second of data at a maximum range of 10 kilometers.
Japan’s National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT ) will supply the database that specifies which frequencies are available for use in each area.
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