The FCC approved a very controversial plan in November to allow unused portions of TV airwaves called White Spaces available for wireless broadband service, and today Google (NSDQ: GOOG) kicked off the long, tedious process of getting mobile devices to market. It wrote on its blog that in order for devices to become available, a working “white spaces database” must be deployed. The company explained that devices will be required to access this database to determine available channels, so that it only access unused spectrum, so the devices don’t interfere with licensed spectrum. “With this mandate in mind, this morning we joined Comsearch, Dell, HP, Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT), Motorola (NYSE: MOT), and Neustar to launch the White Spaces Database Group,” Google wrote.

SEE ALSO: FCC Approves White Space Use For Wireless Broadband

The group will offer their assistance to the FCC on how they would like to see the database run. Over the long-run, Google says it doesn’t plan to be the database administrator, but by getting involved now, they hope “that this will unfold in a matter of months, not years.”