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The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has announced that it will resume testing on a number of devices that aim to provide broadband services through unused TV bandwidths.

Real-world and laboratory testing will begin again on January 24th, after the project was shelved last summer.

A number of devices from Microsoft, Motorola and Philips aim to capitalise on unused TV frequencies to provide wireless broadband over long distances.

If successful, manufacturers would aim to introduce the devices to the commercial US market after the digital switchover early in 2009.

The TV broadband could increase access levels across the US, which a new study reports as being uneven.

The research by Cisco Systems claims that while 96 per cent of Californians have access to broadband, only about 54 per cent have access to 10mbps speeds.

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