The End of Spectrum 'Scarcity': Building on the TV Bands Database to Access Unused Public Airwaves
New America Foundation, June 30, 2009
By Michael Calabrese
The gross under-utilization of the nation's spectrum resource should be an urgent concern for a national broadband policy. Spectrum is not only an immensely valuable and publicly-owned resource, but one that is infinitely renewable. A variety of spectrum management tools will support dynamic, shared use of a large number of federal and non-federal bands with little risk of interference to incumbents.
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