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Agreed. The title is disappointing, especially coming from the IEEE. Anybody who works on radio quickly understands that the radio spectrum is the most preciou

• at-fates-hands 6y ago
  Not knowing much about radio spectrum, but its a finite resource right? There's no way to expand the spectrum, or do something similar like what they did in the early days of wireless technology where they transitioned from TDMA (time division multiple access) to CDMA (code division multiple access) in order to expand the number of user you can put on a data stream. Am I right to look at radio spectrum as a finite resource?
  • sharpneli 6y ago
    Those examples are ways to use the spectrum more efficiently. But the amount we have does not change. It is finite indeed. But it’s also not something that’s consumable. Imagine it as a fixed sized room. If you move stuff out of a corner you can reuse it infinitely, but there can only be so much stuff in there on a particular moment.
• bluedevil2k 6y ago
  With literally an unknown market price. 15 Mhz of spectrum in the United States is worth far more than 15 MHz of spectrum in Norway. As we expand from LTE to 5G to someday 6G, the price changes as well for a block of spectrum. Price is also a factor of competition in the market, and why the current situation in the United States with only 3 major wireless telecom potentially troublesome, with the only reprieve being that companies like Google and Liberty/Dish and private equity getting into the auctions.