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> The market rate for 400 MHz is $80 billion. If market rate were justified for everything then we wouldn't even have space reserved for HAMs. > There's only
by inetknght 6y ago
> The market rate for 400 MHz is $80 billion.
If market rate were justified for everything then we wouldn't even have space reserved for HAMs.
> There's only one industry with enough demand and revenue to justify that purchase price, which is mobile.
There's plenty of industries with enough demand. There's just no way they can compete with the money that mobile offers. That's a damn shame given that money shouldn't be the only, nor even the main, driver.
- LeifCarrotson 6y agoI think OP was using a rather consequentialist and capitalist economic model, where the value of a thing is by definition equal to the money that you can get for it on the open market.
- scarby2 6y agoOr maybe just that governments rarely pass up on that kind of revenue unless it's a huge PR win, in this case it wouldn't be very noticeable.