With the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)’s planned release of “white spaces” – or unused television channels – later this month, high-tech firms and engineers are predicting that the regulatory move will likely bring about another boom of mobile innovation.

The FCC, which released similar airwaves to public twenty years back, is hopeful that with the release of a fresh batch of unlicensed and better-quality airwaves, engineers will to turn those frequencies into WiFi networks; thereby facilitating long-distance and stronger connections.

Noting that the release of “white spaces” will help assuage some of the pressure on the overburdened mobile networks, the FCC chairman Julius Genachowski said that the new waves can be helpful “as an off-load strategy for providers and users to help deal with the spectrum crunch.”

Terming the communications technology as “super WiFi,” Genachowski drew attention to the fact that private carriers are becoming increasingly dependent on WiFi hot spots in urban areas to boost data traffic where their own networks are overstrained.

Meanwhile, though there has been no official disclosure about the details of the proposed regulatory order, the move has already being criticized by broadcasters, Broadway performers and ministers.

In their lawsuit seeking the prevention of the release of “white spaces” by the FCC, the critics of the move have said that users of that spectrum will possibly interfere with television channels; thereby throwing off wireless microphones operating on those frequencies.