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To: Clarksterh who wrote (21293)	1/14/1999 4:14:00 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 152472

Clark, if the spectrum is getting crowded, then the service provider would put up the price to their customers. A competing service provider might not put up their price and give their customers a less efficient or more erratic service. Nope, that doesn't work, because they will both suffer the inefficient and erratic service due to full spectrum as all suffer the same congestion. Suppose in the extreme case, there was a vandal who enjoyed polluting spectrum - maybe to keep people posting snail mail instead of using email. In that case there would need to be some government action. While the economics of equipment cost will slow the consumption of spectrum, eventually it might fill. But there is an awful lot of it around. Just gazing around the garden, I'm using 3D terabytes of data processing and vast spectrum consumption, all done by photons. With better, faster radios, which are just eyes and brains operating on different spectrums, maybe there is simply heaps of spectrum to keep a few billion 1 kg brains fully occupied. I suppose George Gilder has figured this stuff out, so best maybe to find the writing and read it. Anyone got a url? Want to comment George? Have to go now. I'll ponder later. Mquarkce