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Spectrum is kind of a weird case though because it kind of has to be monopolistic - if you allow multiple, independent systems to share the same frequency band,

Spectrum is kind of a weird case though because it kind of has to be monopolistic - if you allow multiple, independent systems to share the same frequency band, none of them will work. > Suppose instead they held a new auction every year or every month for use of the spectrum in a given region until the next auction. This would work if the government or some common third party were responsible for putting up towers (and lease them to the telecoms like MVNOs), but as it is the telecoms build and operate the towers themselves, and the hardware loadout changes slightly depending on which frequency bands that telecom is allowed to use.

AnthonyMouse 5y ago
> Spectrum is kind of a weird case though because it kind of has to be monopolistic - if you allow multiple, independent systems to share the same frequency band, none of them will work. In theory you could actually do this by using TDM with real time auctions for spectrum access. But "monopoly" is still the wrong word because you don't have to allocate 100% of the spectrum to the same company. If there are a hundred and they each have a "monopoly" on a specific 1% of it, they're still in competition with each other. > This would work if the government or some common third party were responsible for putting up towers (and lease them to the telecoms like MVNOs) So have the third parties do that. "That would work if we do that thing that would work" means it would work.