Columbia Professor: “Open Up That Spectrum, Mr. FCC”

mighty now to enter the wireless market , you pretty much have to go through of the Big Four wireless providers , who , as Columbia professor Tim Wu puts it , “ tend to sanction only instal partners whose devices jibe their business plans , which is why we have yet to see all those wireless devices that were supposed to be in our futurity . ”

His solution ? Mandate that future possessor of chunks of the 700Mhz spectrum being auctioned off when analog idiot box goeskaput in 2009make their networks neutral , grant any “ safe ” gimmick to attach to them , kind of like landline .

https://gizmodo.com/house-proposes-do-not-buy-this-tv-label-231657

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Doing so would goad creation , as Wireless Widgets could then get around Big Wireless and put out ground - breaking , disruptive gimmick directly to consumer , ones the Big Four would never leave ( sort of like Skypeaims to do ) . Ars see two other theory for the 700Mhz band , given its foresightful compass : “ set up a novel competitor in the wireless phone space and create a third interior broadband pick to rival cable and DSL . ”

https://gizmodo.com/skype-wants-on-cell-networks-238807

of course , the Big Four are n’t exactly enthused by the prospect of emergent competition on perchance multiple front . But the competition and innovation that could be stimulate by by rights managing the forthcoming auction would ultimately be a boon to consumers , either by radically castrate the mart or forcing the giant out of their inertia .

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So you know what to do : Fire up that electronic mail client ( or snail mail ) and send out your favorite Congressmen a varsity letter , telling them you ’re for free markets , design , American value , and all that jazz .

Forbes Column on Wireless Innovation[Tim Wu viaArs Technica ]

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