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Wireless Spectrum for the Masses?
WIRELESS SPECTRUM FOR THE MASSES?
[SOURCE: BusinessWeek, AUTHOR: Olga Kharif]
Spectrum Bridge claims to be the world’s first online, real-time marketplace where buyers and sellers can trade wireless airwaves, used for providing wireless services. If this idea takes off, it could be a game-changer for the wireless industry. Since the 1990s, when the Federal Communications Commission began auctioning off wireless spectrum, the majority of the airwaves had gone to large telecom companies, able to shell out billions for them. Most chunks of the spectrum they’d bought were expensive and large, covering the whole of the Northeast, or a major city. But what if you just want to buy a piece of the airwaves around your house?
http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/techbeat/archives/2008/03/wireles...

