TV White Spaces: Bringing Affordable Internet to South Africa

June 17, 2014
Lori Stone, Microsoft

Limpopo TV White Spaces, a Microsoft 4Afrika initiative in partnership with the Department of Science and Technology, CSIR, the University of Limpopo and Multisource, in addition to education partners are bringing affordable broadband to an area in Limpopo to connect communities to the information highway.

- Lori Stone
Research Area
- Systems and networking
- Technology for emerging markets
Research Lab
- Microsoft Research Lab - Asia
Project
- Dynamic Spectrum and TV White Spaces
Publication
- Characterizing Spectrum Goodness for Dynamic Spectrum Access

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