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Article: White spaces: ready for development permits or off-limits?
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- August 7, 2008
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by Brian Dipert, Senior Technical Editor
Is wireless spectrum scarce or abundant? Two coalitions' fresh perspectives on a long-standing issue have produced promising early results, but old-guard opponents are raising implementation roadblocks.
The "tragedy of the commons" and the "invisible hand of the marketplace" are two economic concepts that regularly find use in explaining the trajectories of various technologies' initial developments and evolutions (references 1 and 2 ). The influence of these concepts is evident in a diversity of issues involving broadcast-frequency spectrum in the United States and elsewhere.
Take, for example, the ...