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Spectrum Wars: The Hidden Battle

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the pretty-soon-we-are-talking-about-real-money dept.

PacketMaster writes: "The USA Today is carrying an interesting commentary entitled All-but-secret battle rages over fate of airwaves. The article sheds light on some topics that many people are completely ignorant on - the fight over the broadcast spectrum. The most interesting tidbit is that the current broadcasters, who were given the new digital spectrum for applications like HDTV for free, now want to keep their old ones too and auction them off for industry profit to help pay for the transition to the new spectrum."

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  1. Re:Airwaves are protected by International treaty by ka9dgx · · Score: 1, Troll
    "deregulate radio transmissions entirely"

    Ok, so it was meant as a sarcastic commment, but within lies the solution to this problem. If we totally deregulate the airwaves except, we'd have problems for a while, but eventually it would FORCE efficient allocation of the spectrum, ala CDMA or other means, as the only way to reliably get a signal through the newly created mass of noise. It would be like throwing the creative force of the universe at the problem, and there would be many novel, and useful answers to fall out.

    Let's do it!

    --Mike--