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I hate to reply to myself, but I wanted to say one other thing. When governments sell RF spectrum to companies, the expectation is that they become good stewar
by jrockway 5y ago
I hate to reply to myself, but I wanted to say one other thing. When governments sell RF spectrum to companies, the expectation is that they become good stewards of the shared resource. The taxpayers are saying "you know, we think private industry can give us more value from our RF spectrum than the government", and this is their chance to prove that. What we didn't want was to enable a monopolist to nickel-and-dime the Internet to death.
I'm guessing the exact legal agreements didn't spell it out like this, but that's how I think of it. Only one company can use this finite resource at once, but just because they bought it doesn't mean there is no limit to what they can do with it.