A Little Refresher
October 20, 2009
For those of you that follow my ranting of irreverence read on …
For those of you that think I am a crack pot and clueless about what really is going on read on …
For you conspiracy theorists read on …
For my Fiber Bigot friends read on …
This is a refresher posting. First, I need you to go back and read a past post: http://www.telecomstraightshooter.com/2009/04/
Then, read below an excerpt from a speech recently given by FCC chairman Julius Genachowski. Connect your own dots.
“Spectrum is the oxygen of our mobile networks. While the short-term outlook for 4G spectrum availability is adequate, the longer-term picture is very different. In fact, I believe that that the biggest threat to the future of mobile in America is the looming spectrum crisis… The less spectrum available for mobile broadband, the more service will cost and the longer it will take to make 4G ubiquitous. And that doesn’t serve our national needs. In our broadband record, carriers are telling us that they need anywhere from 40MHz to 150MHz — each — to bring the benefits of broadband to American consumers.
As this audience knows, it takes years to reallocate spectrum and put it to use. And there are no easy pickings on the spectrum chart. But we have no choice. We must identify spectrum that can best be reinvested in mobile broadband.
That is something that we have to work on together, across industries, and in partnership with all stakeholders.
Unleashing spectrum for mobile broadband is the first part of our plan.”
If I were a betting man, I bet that if we could fingerprint this speech, Google fingerprints would be found … just a hunch.
Written by Dave Rusin - Telecom ExecutiveComments
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