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| Progressive Policy Reform of the Public Airwaves |
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| Written by Sylvia Cadena | |
| Monday, 11 July 2005 | |
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Wireless technologies and the public airwaves that are this medium's lifeblood are rapidly being cordoned off, made proprietary, and licensed -- a process being driven by a desire to maximize profit margins, not serve the public good. A refocusing of priorities on "open infrastructures" that better serve the general public is desperately needed. These systems should be predicated on utilizing open spectrum, open source software, and open architecture hardware.
It is clear that a major telecommunications battle is coming -- the future of broadband will continue to ignore many communities and marginalize vast constituencies. The article is fully available in HTML format at: The article is fully available in PDF format at: |
