White Spaces Wrap Up: Exclusive Licensing, or the Part 101 Poison Pill
Wet Machine, November 3, 2008
By Harold Feld
Exclusive licensing for white spaces is a poison pill that will kill open, unlicensed use for the unused TV spectrum. Yes, getting rural backhaul and more spectrum for competing wireless carriers is important. But the effort to do so by licensing white space sacrifices too much.
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