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Making Good Policy: What should we do?

  • Devote more nonexclusively licensed spectrum to wireless broadband, with mandatory spectrum etiquettes (e.g. 802.11y) to enable cognitive radio and effective spectrum sharing. Possibilities:
    • AWS-3 Spectrum (Could become "National Broadband Deployment Band")
    • 700 MHz "D Block" (Cellular industry would not share with public safety, but WISPs would)
    • Take back the virtually unused LMDS "A" band for local wireless broadband

  • Increase power  limits in rural counties (Population <200K) by 9 dB for Part 15 WISPs on 900 MHz, 2.4 GHz, 5.3-5.8 GHz, 60 GHz (for inter-tower links)

  • Increase geographic granularity of  spectrum licenses; allow providers to pay as they go rather than paying in full before they can make a dime; prohibit hoarding

  • Doctrine of "adverse possession" for spectrum

  • Do not write regulations that assume that only content providers are innovators or that only ISPs can be gatekeepers
  • Do not regulate unless there is actually a problem, such as anticompetitive behavior

  • Fix the broken "middle mile" (special access) market, where there is anticompetitive behavior