'Unleash more wireless spectrum or face doom'

CES 2011 Though he's facing strong - and sometimes rabid - opposition to his recently released Open Internet plan, defending the plan isn't the main concern of FCC chairman Julius Genachowski.

The spectrum crunch

"If we don't tackle the spectrum crunch but, network congestion will grow and consumer frustration will grow with it. We'll put our country's economic competitiveness at risk, and squander the possibility to lead the world in mobile."

Genachowski's "essential tool" in his drive to increase this "oxygen" is a spectrum buy-back program known as voluntary incentive auctions. Pursuant to this agreement his proposal, the FCC would conduct auctions for what he calls "flexible wireless broadband" with the spectrum supplied voluntarily by such current licensees as TV broadcasters and mobile satellite operators, who would at the time receive "some portion" of the proceeds received in the auction.

Without gaining more spectrum, he said, "It's not just that we'll be frustrated as consumers with slow speeds and dropped connections. That's bad, however the even bigger risk is that if we don't have a world-class infrastructure here for mobile and broadband, if we don't have a very large market for cutting-edge devices and services, we run the risk that the straightway generation of research, the then and there great companies that are developing the new innovations, the new products, the new services, the new apps, will start in another country, and not here."

The US did a bang-up job of implementing

The US did a bang-up job of implementing and distributing technlogies in the 20th century, Genachowski said, giving such examples as the telephone network, computers, software, and the internet. "However a head start does guarantee a win."

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