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Re: [ox] Economist on Sharing



Hi,

The Economist schrieb:
Tune in and share

The phenomenon of sharing physical goods has important implications for a
number of public policy debates today, most notably for regulation of the use
of radio spectrum. Around the world, regulators have granted licences, giving
mobile-phone companies the rights to use a specific band of the airwaves,
often in exchange for billions of dollars. Spectrum is parcelled out in this
way under the assumption that more than one signal on the same frequency
results in interference. This has been true until recently, but today radios
with cheap microprocessors can pick out competing signals intelligently, just
as the human ear can make sense of a conversation in a noisy bar.

The result is that new technology has made the sharing of spectrum possible?Äî
radio waves could be a non-rivalrous good?Äîif only this were legally
permitted
and engineered into the software that runs the wireless devices. Regulators
have changed their approaches slightly by allowing secondary markets in
spectrum, but this anachronistically still presumes exclusive, not shared,
use.

Fragt sich nur, ob die Regierungen (v.a. in D, das ja am meisten für die
UMTS-Lizenzen kassierte) bereit sein werden, die vielen Milliarden wieder
an die Telcoms zurückzuzahlen, um aus dem Spektrum eine Allmende werden
zu lassen.  Falls sie's nicht tun (bzw. nicht können -- das Geld ist ja
schon ausgegeben..), wird wohl nichts anderes übrigbleiben als die obg.
"secondary markets".  Und das bedeutet dann:

                  __Virtuelle Millionenbauern__ !  8-(

(mitm Frequenzspektrum wie mitm Boden)

Gruss,
Christoph

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