700-Mhz anything but UHF?

[Ilikepiedoyou]

I recently read an article describing the change in the 700-Mhz spectrum is going to be going from analog TV signals to wireless broadband signals. However the article says, "The beauty of the 700-Mhz spectrum is that no one in the U.S. has been licensed to broadcast anything but UHF in that spectrum. As a result, there is "no noise, no interference- coast to coast." What does this quote mean? I thought UHF (ultra high frequency) was just a way of describing a particular range in the electromagnetic spectrum, so how can anything buy UHF be broadcasted in this range if UHF defines this range?

 

[VisionxOrb]

Thats true UHF is just a freq range however, if you where to go to a older individual that isnt techi enough to think like that and you mention UHF they will probably respond " oh you mean the upper channels on my old TV" as they split the channel range between VHF and UHF ( thats for OTA and not CATV ) so im going to assume this is just talking about tv signals.

 

[Modelworks]

I think what they meant in the article was that the 700Mhz spectrum was reserved only for the uhf tv bands . Unlike other spectrums that were split with various users for short range use.

So now that analog tv is going out , the only user of the spectrum is gone, freeing it for other uses.