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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.

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

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?

Almost everything the FCC does is challenged in court. There is no clean solution because we have a Communications Act that wasn't written for broadband.

The Internet freedom issue we need to focus on is network neutrality.

Without network neutrality, cable and phone companies could stifle innovation.

Mobile communications had been around for a long time, but always as a limited market, constrained by the radio spectrum.

The FCC can and indeed should do more to protect the Internet as the free and open environment people have come to expect and depend on - which is why we need to stand up to attacks on the FCC's authority.

At its core, the FCC's plan to regulate the Internet will force businesses and people to check first with the government and get permission to innovate.

As each year and debate passes, more broadband companies will start to see that their future lies not in restricting an open Internet but in betting on it.