Lollapa-White-Space

The Recording Academy has invited the Federal Communications Commission to the Lollapalooza music festival in Chicago on August 1 [the Pirates are in town, so FCC staff might want to stick around for the entire weekend]. The academy believes the festival might be a great place to test so-called white-spaces devices in the field. Broadcasters and wireless-microphone users are concerned that the devices will cause interference to their respective broadcasts. The academy shares that concern, saying that the FCC should move "with extreme caution" before approving any of the devices and should not do so without "robust interference protection."