Spectrum of Greed

According to initial hearings with Congress over the FCC’s sweeping new broadband plan, there is an immediate determination to take back at least 120Mhz of spectrum from television broadcasters and allocate it to mobile phone providers.  Apparently up to 500Mhz may be targeted within the next 10 years.  I don’t think that is going far enough.  Obviously the broadcasters are not taking this well.  Mobile data providers are pretty juiced though! (continue reading…)

The real question is, “Why not in the US?”  Some might blame the lack of US sales on the crappy network service that has plagued the iPhone lately, or suggest that at it’s very high price the market for people that want to shell out that kind of dough for a phone is saturated, but the reason isn’t so simple.  (continue reading…)