Spectrum of Greed

America’s wireless economy demonstrates the best and the worst in the American business landscape. True, we have some of the best communications infrastructure in the world. A base that served us very well in the twentieth century. And yes, I did mean the twentieth century.

As we move forward in the twenty-first century, we are seeing a growing requirement for always on, immediately recoverable communications systems. The advent of high availability systems and their distribution into business and everyday life is driving these new requirements. Perhaps the most relevant example is our financial industry, where online processing and ATM’s require communications networks to be available in order to provide even a basic level of operation. (continue reading…)

Larry Lessig (pardon my familiarity, I am just a lazy typist) made a controversial statement that the FCC was corrupt beyond salvaging, and should be shut down.  If that weren’t outrageous enough, Larry then suggests, “In their place, Congress should create something we could call the Innovation Environment Protection Agency (iEPA), charged with a simple founding mission: ‘minimal intervention to maximize innovation.’ The iEPA’s core purpose would be to protect innovation from its two historical enemies-excessive government favors, and excessive private monopoly power.” Original Newsweek article.

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