 calvoiper
join:2003-03-31
Belvedere Tiburon, CA | Beware the Law of Unintended Consequences..... Deja Vu.
Does anybody remember when the PCS spectrum came on the market? The FCC, in order to prevent the "big guys" from monopolizing PCS, sliced and diced the spectrum both technically and geographically to the point where it looked like a birthday cake that had been through a Cuisinart.
To what result? We have more players, but the only useful ones are still part of the "big guy" networks.
(Of course, the FCC also decided to play economic experiment with the auction strategy, and forgot to get bankruptcy excluded in the authorizing legislation, so PCS was twisted 3-ways before it even got out of the box....)
I essentially agree with the "Save Our Spectrum Coalition", but urge caution lest the protections severely hamper use without long-term benefit.
(And yes, I'll freely admit that now the PCS frequencies FINALLY got up and running, cellular service is much more competitive than it used to be. Maybe the SOS answer is right--keep the old players where they are, and only let the new players in. That approach would have been much simpler than what the FCC did with PCS.)
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