Five omens suggest dynamic access to the airwaves is on its way, bringing hope that more people will gain access to more affordable broadband services.
Today’s regulatory policies encourage exclusive licensing of spectrum to specific operators, as rightly happened when I led the 4G auction in the UK in February 2013. Static spectrum allocation is driven by the need to minimize interference and serve an established mobile ecosystem that equates exclusive licensing with investment certainty and economies of scale.
Unfortunately, it’s also true that, even though 2.5 billion of us are broadband connected, another 5 billion people are not…