...[The National Association of Broadcasters and the Association for Maximum Service TV] will stress their support for using wireless spectrum to further rural broadband deployment through fixed systems, officials said Monday. Meanwhile, they'll push hard against plans to use the TV band for mobile broadband services -- particularly involving devices that rely on spectrum sensing to determine when they'll work...

[NAB President David Rehr] and MSTV President David Donovan kicked off the lobbying Monday with a joint letter sent to FCC Chairman Kevin Martin. Representatives from each state's broadcast association will fly in to Washington Sept. 19 to lobby their members of Congress, Rehr said...

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The New America Foundation, an advocate of using the white spaces for wireless broadband, fired back. "NAB scare tactics cannot change the engineering facts," the group said. "There is no longer any doubt about the technical feasibility of mobile, low-power devices to detect-and-avoid channels occupied by licensed TV stations or wireless microphone systems..."

New America Foundation's Wireless Future Program's most recent policy report on the "myths and facts" of white space devices (pdf)

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