Washington - Google revealed plans for a class of wireless devices to work on soon-to-be-vacant television airwaves on Monday.The company sought to ease worries that this might get in the way of wireless microphones or television broadcasts.

In explanation filed with the FCC (Federal Communications Commission), Google Inc summarized plans for low-power devices,which make use of local wireless airwaves for accessing the”white space”between TV channels.One of the Google official named the plan as” Wi-Fi on steroids or Wi-Fi 2.0.”"The airwaves can give enormous social and economic gains if efficiently used,”the Internet leader said in its comments.

In the long run this set of Wi-Fi devices might give data transmission speeds up to billions of bits/second,which is far greater than the millions of bits/second to be had on most of the existing broadband networks.People could do things like watching movies on wireless devices and other things,which are at present difficult on slower networks, said Rick Whitt of Google’s Washington telecom and media counsel. (more…)