calvoiper
join:2003-03-31
Belvedere Tiburon, CA
| reply to GOLFnSUN
Re: Business Week article prescribing chaos
said by GOLFnSUN  :The Business Week article is basically prescribing chaos as the antidote to FCC incompetence.
No, the writer proposes a marketplace as an antidote to central planning.
An analogy would be land use. The US has developed with a relatively free market in land ownership and some restrictions on use--with retained government ownership for things like roads and parks.
A similar approach would put the FCC more in the position of a zoning administrator and title registry--worrying less about the perceived "public benefit" of the specific ownership and use of a particular slice of property/spectrum than about whether the use fits into broad guidelines established (possibly commercial/personal/government/unregulated--or some other category-based approach.)
There are pluses and minuses to this approach--I don't feel strongly one way or the other, but I agree the result of present practices is far less than optimal.
calvoiper
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