Comment Re:Do it like the homestead act (Score 1) 115
The leases on spectrum should be specific to the region like conventional radio stations. If I lease a bit of spectrum in Florida for a radio station, I don't own that same frequency in California. I don't even own it in all of Florida.
The big problem I see with this is the fragmentation it would cause. Quite frankly, the US already has issues due to their major mobile phone networks using different frequencies. Having different frequencies for the same network, within the same country would just exacerbate that.
I would argue that where the frequency is used for a standardized protocol, they should be required to allow others to use it, providing they are compliant with the appropriate standard. Allowing other frequencies to be allocated for competing standards would only be permitted where there were clear benefits to doing so.