IP: Spectrum Squatters

[Dave Farber <farber@cis.upenn.edu>]

Spectrum Squatters

By WILLIAM SAFIRE

The broadcast media have stolen the free use of great chunks of the most 
valuable natural resource of the information age: the digital television 
spectrum. It's time we demand they use it or lose it.

....

William Kennard, chairman of the F.C.C., uses a homely analogy about 
spectrum squatters: it's as if Congress gave each broadcaster two 
rent-controlled apartments on Manhattan's Upper West Side, and the 
broadcaster occupied one while leaving the other empty.


http://www.nytimes.com/2000/10/09/opinion/09SAFI.html