The U.S. can’t build its way out of a spectrum crisis,...
The U.S. can’t build its way out of a spectrum crisis, economist Peter Rysavy of Rysavy Research said in a post on the Hightechforum.org website. Rysavy, who has done research for carriers and others in the industry, took issue with…
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recent news reports questioning whether there really is an approaching spectrum crisis. “It is poor science to suggest that investing more in infrastructure or deploying better technology will solve the problem, since the industry is already investing massive sums in infrastructure,” Rysavy said. “The investment argument is a bit like saying that we could solve all of our traffic congestion problems by adding numerous extra lanes to each freeway. Sure, with enough hundreds of billions of extra dollars you could do that. Similarly, if you put in Wi-Fi everywhere, or many hundreds of thousands of small cells (ignoring for the moment that we don’t have the backhaul technology to hook all these up), you could vastly increase wireless network capacity. But the investment cost would now be so high that nobody would be able to afford the resulting service costs."