SWOT analysis for TV white spaces

The digital dividend will occur when the transition from analogue to digital television (TV) becomes effective. The freed and interleaved spectrum, known as TV white spaces (TVWS), may be a good opportunity for business related with new wireless services based on software-defined radio (SDR) and cognitive radio (CR) technologies. In this scope, the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats (SWOT) analysiswhich is a tool to help in the identification of inner (internal origin) and outer (external origin) factors of a company, service or product, which characterise its position in the marketis considered a useful tool to evaluate the chances of success for this new spectrum usage paradigm. In this work, we present a suitable SWOT analysis for the use of TV white spaces considering three different reference scenarios in the European context: spectrum of commons, secondary spectrum market and prioritised services (public safety).Copyright (c) 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.