IP: Isolationism? wireless type

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

March 22, 2001
Isolationism?

By Nancy Gohring

It's time to face the fact that the U.S. won't see third-generation 
wireless. Ever. We'll remain on our island in the high-speed, mobile, 
multimedia network spanning the globe.
Today's globetrotters must rent a variety of phones to keep connected as 
they move from one continent to another. In the future, they'll need only 
two - one for the U.S., and one for the rest of the world.

Our government's inability to designate and clear spectrum for 
next-generation services prevents the wireless industry from untangling the 
knot of multiple, incompatible networks. Unlike our European and Asian 
counterparts, we won't see big chunks of spectrum put on the auction block 
for 3G because the bureaucracy here moves at a snail's pace and we have far 
less potentially usable spectrum.

http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/columns/0,4164,2700262,00.html



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