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National and international broadband strategies should include
radical changes in radio regulation. Wireless technology that uses electromagnetic radio frequencies is key to
rapid broadband development that reaches even geographically remote
areas of the world. In considering radio regulation, too often
policy-makers have focused on spectrum management and
interference among radio signals. The most important questions are
not whether to have open access to spectrum (a commons approach),
or spectrum auctions, or spectrum property rights, or no property
rights. Much more important is to examine the relationship of
fundamental political choices to constitutional aspects of regulating use of radio
devices.
To get radical changes in radio spectrum policy, a new world-wide
conversation is needed around three questions. First, what is a
good separation and balance of powers in radio regulation? Second,
how should radio regulation be geographically configured? Third,
how should radio regulation understand and respect personal
freedom? Most persons understand revolutionary ideas that answer
these three questions. The challenge is to recognize this common
knowledge and apply it to radio regulation.
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