A new firm is trying to encourage the FCC to let at least some of the forthcoming 700 mHz auction be auctioned to open access bidders –
Who cares? In more normal language, the spectrum would be licensed on the condition that the carrier adopt, effectively, cellular carterfone rules.
That may seem hard to understand, but to get a handle on it try their website.
I am absolutely not the first person to make this point. Let me repeat that. This is not my idea.
However, for telecom people, I think it can yield alot to look at the whole NN debate as a debate over termination pricing.
In brief, the internet has a natural-born “bill and keep” system — and there’s alot about that which is attractive.
I have written a short paper explaining this point, which is here:
Chicken meets Blue Bear
Atari’s Missile Command is still the scariest game ever.
Here is a great, indeed must-read paper on the 19th century problem of “Patent Sharks.”
I am finished the beta draft of Wireless Net Neutrality.
The paper examines the practices of wireless carriers with an eye toward their effects on consumers and innovation. The intro is posted after the jump.  This paper is being published by the New America Foundation, and we will release the paper next Wednesday, Feb. 14, in Washington DC, at the FTC hearings.
Get the full text here.
That’s about how much it might cost to get your hands on nationwide spectrum equivalent to a UHF station.
Perhaps the nature conservancy should buy itself some.