CTIA Vice President Jot Carpenter questioned the premise behind an...
CTIA Vice President Jot Carpenter questioned the premise behind an April 17 story in The New York Times, questioning whether carriers face an actual spectrum crisis (http://xrl.us/bm49zd). The article has gotten considerable buzz since it came out last week. “If…
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the spectrum crisis is fabricated, then is there a worldwide conspiracy to perpetuate it?” Carpenter wrote on CTIA’s blog (http://xrl.us/bm49zh). “Because around the globe, other countries have moved or are moving to make additional spectrum available for commercial use. So either everyone’s in on it, or -- and this is much, much more likely -- the whole world is going mobile and other countries are seeing the same demands as the U.S. ... When you compare U.S. users and usage, we lead the pack in a variety of meaningful metrics. Yet when you look at how much spectrum we have available and what’s in the pipeline, we are behind. And that’s the point.”