Maurice: Allen Salmasi and QUALCOMM are the ones who made spectrum valuable by enabling a huge volume of calls per megahertz, so if anyone deserves the money, it's the creators of CDMA, not some government bureaucrats who want a windfall to capture the money QUALCOMM left on the table when undercharging on royalties for their great invention.
This is an interesting statement coming from the king of "wacky wireless".. The whole variable pricing scheme dependent on supply vs. demand. How can you credit a company that has dramatically increased the the supply of "virtual spectrum" via technology with making it more valuable? As the amount of traffic that a given slice of spectrum can handle increases. The overall value of available spectrum should decrease!! Because now you need less "actual spectrum" to serve X number of subscribers.
Verizon sees no urgent need for wireless spectrum
By Jessica Hall
PHILADELPHIA, Jan 31 (Reuters)
Verizon Wireless, a joint venture of Verizon Communications and Britain's Vodafone Group Plc (quote from Yahoo! UK & Ireland: VOD.L)(NYSE:VOD - news), on Monday deployed high-speed technology on its network, which increases the capacity to handle additional customers. Verizon Wireless, which has more than 29 million subscribers, now has less urgency to buy new spectrum.
``I think the first thing to recognize is by rolling out the (high-speed technology) more quickly, spending the capital that we did that last half of '01, we bought ourselves some time because we've increased the capacity,''Verizon Co-Chief Executive Ivan Seidenberg said in a conference call with analysts and reporters.
``So even in the most dense markets, we're looking at somewhere in the vicinity of 18 to 24 months out ... (before) we'll run into the spectrum question,'' he said.
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Seems your concept is flawed?
And so it goes..
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