If you're replying to qompiler, than I'm quite sure that it is more than reasonable to use "it's" as a contraction for "it is". Happy to be corrected here, but this is my understanding based on the use observed.
'White space' is the standard term for allocated but unused radio frequencies.
It has also been nearly 20 years since the end of Apartheid, South Africa is no longer defined only by its racially-segregated past. Your comment is as silly as including a reference to Communism in any mention of modern-day Russia.
I doubt many South Africans would see it in racial terms. I live in SA, and see plenty of ads advertising credit relief for people who have been "blacklisted" (have poor credit scores).
Wireless Internet is definitely the future in Africa, since they won't be able to afford to put cables everywhere. And since LTE and even 3G are still quite expensive there, white spaces/Super Wi-Fi will probably be the future of the Internet there.
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[ 0.23 ms ] story [ 432 ms ] threadIt turns out it's the (quite reasonable) name for the technology that uses unused TV bandwidth ("TV whitespace") for wireless networking.
The wikipedia article is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_spaces_%28radio%29.
Would the same comment be acceptable if Google were doing this in Mississippi which ratified the 13th Amendment to ban slavery in 1995?
It has also been nearly 20 years since the end of Apartheid, South Africa is no longer defined only by its racially-segregated past. Your comment is as silly as including a reference to Communism in any mention of modern-day Russia.