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.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Government must make spectrum free. There should be free network, but it is not happening.
Mobile communications had been around for a long time, but always as a limited market, constrained by the radio spectrum.
No country should waste wireless spectrum. Especially not India, where the cellphone has become the personal computer.
The ability for consumers to receive broadcast over the air signal is their right.
Even on television, the wavelengths that you use, they have to be distributed between countries.
One way or another, we need to understand that broadband is essentially telephone service, and just as we got to telephone service in the United States to one hundred per cent, we need to do it for broadband.
Inexpensive phones and pay-as-you go services are already spreading mobile phone technology to many parts of that world that never had a wired infrastructure.
The people who depend on an antenna are often those who are underprivileged - the elderly and the disadvantaged who can't afford a $200-a-month cable bill.
The public owns the airwaves; Congress gave them to broadcasters for free, with the understanding that they would serve the public interest while trying to maximize profit. An aspect of serving the public is to use the immense power of electronic media to reflect evolving standards of respect for other people.
Isn't it only appropriate that, in return for the free use of the public spectrum, broadcasters provide something substantial, something that wouldn't otherwise be provided by marketplace competition?