IP: Re: Response to David Reed

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

> Sender: rberger () imap ultradevices com
> Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 15:49:10 -0700
> From: "Robert J. Berger" <rberger () ultradevices com>
>
>
> I haven't seen the TV/Radio broadcasters being open to sharing or leasing 
> their spectrum and they got it for free...
>
> The ARRL is already protesting the sharing of their spectrum with 
> Ultrawideband and they got their spectrum allocations for free too...
>
> Monopolists don't ever want to share even lease (see open access in Cable 
> TV, Telecom Act with the ILECs) if it cuts into their Monopoly...
>
> I don't see a market mechanism emerging where incumbent monopolists will 
> allow even non interfering Ultrawideband to begin to develop.
>
> My suggestion is to have a market mechanism for legacy uses of spectrum 
> with the explicit regulatory statement that all spectrum must be open to 
> non-interfering secondary uses (such as Ultrawideband or SDR radios that 
> find and utilize unused local bandwidth for instance). Legacy devices that 
> are more than 10 years old should not be used to determine interference.
>
> We can then transition from the market legacy to a technologically 
> mediated sharing of an inexhaustible medium.
> --
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