The Piedmont Regional Council (Regione Piemonte) is taking its Wi-Pie program – committed to fostering the spread of Wi-fi – to Val di Viù, a valley in the Italian Alps, in a new trial that makes use of the frequencies not utilized by television services to deliver broadband wireless networks
Turin, October 6 2010 – White spaces are the partially unused frequencies left by broadcasters after the switchover to Digital Terrestrial Television, which can be used for trials to deliver broadband internet services to areas which are difficult to reach with the normal network, such as mountainous areas.
On September the 20th, the European Commission issued a statement establishing 2013 as the deadline for defining rules for the efficient use of these unused frequencies, or white spaces.
