Even on television, the wavelengths that you use, they have to be distributed between countries.
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Satellite communications connect television screens in Japan with television cameras in England, and the distance of half a world loses its meaning.
No country should waste wireless spectrum. Especially not India, where the cellphone has become the personal computer.
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.
Ever since the Second World War, television signals (as well as FM radio and radar) have served as Homo sapiens' emissaries into deep space. High-frequency, high-power broadcasts have filled an Earth-centered bubble more than 60 light-years in radius with signals.
Our television transmitters leak out from the Earth. And actually, there's a sphere surrounding the Earth from the earliest television signals, maybe 70 years ago, that's going out one light year per year. But it's really weak.
As far as the radio waves part of the spectrum, we can do these adequately from the ground because the atmosphere is basically transparent to our radio waves.
During the past few decades, modern technology, with radio, TV, air travel, and satellites, has woven a network of communication which puts each part of the world in to almost instant contact with all the other parts.
Television is an instrument which can paralyze this country.
The ability for consumers to receive broadcast over the air signal is their right.
I think, because of the Internet, we're not looking at the very, very narrow channels for distribution that there used to be.
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