- First 10 years were
great.... With only a few easily resolved conflicts over spectrum (e.g.
with Metricom, which sought to monopolize 900 MHz)
- Now being affected by
"tragedy of the commons" on unlicensed bands
- While LARIAT.NET does what
it can to engineer
superior unlicensed solutions, it is now being crowded off the
unlicensed bands by everything from cordless phones to baby monitors
- Many gigahertz of unused
spectrum in our area, but we cannot use it
- Other potential bands,
such as 3650 MHz, tied up in political red tape
- Our
analysis shows that licensed spectrum -- even at FCC's minimum bid (5
cents per MHz per unit population) -- is so expensive that a savings
account has better ROI than broadband operation on auctioned spectrum
- Most other
providers are in same situation: Spectrum scarcity hinders deployment
of reliable services that people want and need
- How did we
get into this mess? Is there a way out of it?
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