Nothing about the current system denies the public from the freedom of movement that you are talking about.
The argument that the Telecom industry has against the current model is not that they can not get the coverage that they need. The argument is that they will have too many licenses to track. This is an interesting argument because TMobile currently has around 70,000,000 customers. They have no trouble tracking THAT information. But it is too much work for them to track a measly half a million licenses... How is that?
The problem is not in the coverage available to the providers, or the customers. Big Telecom want to be able to offer coverage, without having as much overhead.
Basically, the big fish want to cut out the little fish so that the big fish don't have to do as much work.
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Nothing about the current system denies the public from the freedom of movement that you are talking about. The argument that the Telecom industry has against the current model is not that they can not get the coverage that they need. The argument is that they will have too many licenses to track. This is an interesting argument because TMobile currently has around 70,000,000 customers. They have no trouble tracking THAT information. But it is too much work for them to track a measly half a million licenses... How is that? The problem is not in the coverage available to the providers, or the customers. Big Telecom want to be able to offer coverage, without having as much overhead. Basically, the big fish want to cut out the little fish so that the big fish don't have to do as much work.