unlicensed users in the area, or any stations licensed or altered after the device was made. Additionally, these efforts may impact wireless microphones, medical telemetry, and other technologies that have historically relied on these open frequencies. Professional wireless microphones have used white space for decades previous to so-called white space devices. Comparison with Wi-Fi Like Wi-Fi, TV whitespace is a wireless connection that uses different frequency bands. TV white space operates in 470 MHz to 698 MHz, while Wi-Fi operates in 2.4 and 5 GHz bands. Speed-wise, it really depends on the model of the radio, the vendor, the antenna length, and other factors. New radios can support more than 50 Mbit/s. Wi-Fi, similarly, speed depends on several factors, such as the range, the line of sight, and so on, but they can support up to 1000 Mbit/s using the IEEE 802.11ac standard. The range is a crucial difference between Wi-Fi and TV white space. On average, TV white space range is 6 miles, but it can be less or more depending on different aggregates, such as noise, line of site and so on. One of the three main TV white space manufactures, Carlson wireless, advertises that their radios can go up to 24.8 miles. Both have low power consumption - 20 to 100 watts depending on the device, the antenna length, the vendor, and so on. Both technologies meet the government security standards such as FIPS 197 Compliance (Advanced Encryption Standards). While Wi-Fi works great in cities, TV white space works great in rural areas. Graph 1 illustrates the differences between TV white space and Wi-Fi. By country Argentina Microsoft, in a partnership with the communications authority of Argentina, Ente Nacional de Comunicaciones (ENACOM), planned to deliver wireless access to schools in the province of Mendoza on or around August, 2017. Microsoft will borrow the White Spaces hardware to ENACOM technicians, and national satellite operator ARSAT will act as the ISP. No further trial details has been delivered yet. Canada In August 2011, Industry Canada, the Canadian ministry for industry, launched a consultation on "Consultation on a Policy and Technical Framework for the Use of Non-Broadcasting Applications in the Television Broadcasting Bands Below 698 MHz" (pdf). The consultation closed on November 4, 2011. Submissions were received from a wide range of organisations from the telecoms and broadcast industries. Kenya A pilot project by Indigo Telecom/Microsoft and the Kenyan government