Television broadcasters have combined with a wide and powerful array of entertainment interests to block unlicensed use of the spectrum, currently used by wireless professional audio and communications equipment and as interference buffer zones by TV stations, for more than six years. Even Dolly Parton sang the white spaces blues for the FCC.

"I fully expect that everything from enhanced home broadband networks to intelligent peer-to-peer devices and even small communications networks will come into being in TV white spaces," Martin said, giving credit to "consumer groups, technology leaders and Internet pioneers" for their advocacy.

Google co-founder Larry Page rushed to be one of the first to praise the FCC decision.

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