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Re: Independent space from ARIN


From: Owen DeLong <owen () delong com>
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2003 18:22:54 -0700


Sorry, but, the government does _NOT_ auction spectrum space off to the
highest bidder in all cases.  If they did, amateur radio would be dead,
as would FRS, CB, and probably a lot of the part 15 allocations.

Owen

It's this kind of thing that keeps areas of the radio spectrum
licensed by the government.

And the govt licenses that spectrum to the highest bidder, plus allows
owners to sell spectrum to each other as assets.  Pretending the RIRs are
even remotely similar is disingenuous.

S

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