Spectrum Management Quotes

The concept that you cannot own the airwaves has caused far more harm than good.

Ideally, the ITU must be made up of truly visionary leaders - those willing to do the hard work to get critical spectrum bands realigned and put to their highest use.

When the government allocates monopoly rights to frequency, and there are only a handful in each community, it's picking the winners in the competition.

Some may say that it's wrong for the government to meddle in what private companies are doing, but phone radio waves belong to the people.

If you operate a TV or radio station, you have to have a license. It has nothing to do with fundamental freedom. It has to do with protection of the average citizen against abuses.

Even on television, the wavelengths that you use, they have to be distributed between countries.

TV broadcasting is owned, in the sense that governments around the world have asserted power over the airwaves that permeate their territories, deciding who can use what bandwidth and why - and those with licenses then, with exceptions determined by regulators, decide what to broadcast.

I can assure you that the United States intends to pursue the best course of action to meet its own spectrum needs.

Government must make spectrum free. There should be free network, but it is not happening.

Technology is at a point where we should allow multiple parties to occupy the same spectral space.

The electronic spectrum is the only natural resource in which there's no such thing as private property rights. You can't own a piece of the spectrum.

Somehow in the last 100 years, every time there is a problem of getting more spectrum, there is a technology that comes along that solves that problem.

The transmission systems are still regulated.

The notion that there's finite spectrum is mostly wrong.

Every two and a half years, every spectrum crisis has gotten solved, and that's going to keep happening.

And understand that scarce spectrum is used today for example for cell phone operators, they have to pay for the airwaves they use, for their services.

I personally believe every country has the same amount of spectrum. It is not that India has less... It needs to be vacated from other places; that is what other countries have also done.

No country should waste wireless spectrum. Especially not India, where the cellphone has become the personal computer.