[Commentary] Feld and the wireless industry support the Radio Spectrum Inventory Act, a bill to require the National telecommunications and Information Administration and the Federal Communications Commission to account for every MHz of spectrum between 300 MHz and 3.5 GHz within 180 days of the bill's passage. You would think we would already have this information, right? After all, the NTIA exists to coordinate government use of spectrum, and the FCC requires a detailed license for every use of wireless not covered by the "unlicensed" rules of Part 15. Sadly, given the vital importance of managing spectrum, we don't have this information in anything like a useable form. The FCC has been (to be polite about it) extremely variable and inconsistent about how it maintains license information, how it puts this information online, and what information it requires from each licensee in any given service.
