COMMENTARY: It's time to take spectrum away from the politicians

IT’S INSTRUCTIVE, TRAVELLING to a country where spectrum policy seems focused on what’s best for citizens and not what’s best for the government itself. In her keynote to the annual CTIA Conference in Las Vegas which we attended last week, acting FCC chair Mignon Clyburn laid out just what the Federal Communications Commission has done and is doing on the wireless front, in good detail. It was a straightforward account of what is going on with the spectrum file Stateside; concrete strategy geared towards the public interest, clearly spoken by a government official in a way that I have never...