Writing in the Times of India (12 Feb), Gurcharan Das -- former CEO of Procter & Gamble India, Harvard Business School alumnus and not exactly a closet communist -- says, "Think of the spectrum like the village commons<http://blogs.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/men-and-ideas/entry/think-of-the-spectrum-like-the-village-commons> ".
Das writes, "Today many experts think of spectrum as a common grazing ground around a village, which is open to everyone to use freely. They claim that new spectrum-sharing technologies allow a virtually unlimited number of persons to use it without causing each other interference - this eliminates the need for either property rights or government control. This is why the United States has gone ahead and designated a 50 MHz block of spectrum in the 3650 MHz band as a "commons". As Arun Mehta and Vickram Crishna have written tirelessly for as long as I can remember, technology has advanced sufficiently for us to adopt an 'open spectrum' regime. But unfortunately, as Das says, "the Supreme Court judgment [in the 2G case] has come out so heavily prescriptive in favour of auctions that future governments in India will be shy to adopt a better alternative." The next casualty of the government's failure to do the right thing with spectrum will be the FM Phase III auction, when 839 more FM channels go under the hammer. Hundreds of these frequencies -- in 'unviable markets' -- will go a-begging, while the bigger cities will wind up with a clutch of FM stations all playing *Kolaveri Di*, or in sporadic bursts of creativity and wild courage, *Sheila ki Jawani.* * * Sajan On 10 February 2012 10:50, N.Ramakrishnan <n...@ideosyncmedia.org> wrote: > The new bill that impact the US FCC's control over spectrum auctioning is > **so controversial that former FCC chairman, Reed Hundt, recently called > this proposal "the single worst telecom bill" he'd ever seen, and, "a > repudiation of the smartest auction theorists in the world."** > > Lessons to be learnt? > Ramakrishnan > > http://www.engadget.com/2012/**02/08/att-and-verizon-lobby-** > for-less-fcc-spectrum-control/<http://www.engadget.com/2012/02/08/att-and-verizon-lobby-for-less-fcc-spectrum-control/> > > -- > N.Ramakrishnan > > Director of Projects > Ideosync Media Combine > 177, Ashoka Enclave III > Sector 35, Faridabad - 121 003 > Haryana - India >
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