____/ Mark Kent on Monday 16 June 2008 12:00 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
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>> Stop the spectrum auction madness
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>>| When a company pays billions of dollars for a monopoly on the use of
>>| spectrum, it can only get that money back by charging you a lot of money to
>>| use it.
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>>| That money is a tax, a spectrum tax, one you pay on every phone call you
>>| make, and every ringtone you download.
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>>| But it?s your spectrum. Yours and mine. The electromagnetic spectrum is not
>>| government property, and need not be private property. It is supposed to be
>>| regulated by the government in the public interest, to prevent
>>| interference.
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>> http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=2496
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> It's a very good point. How can anyone 'own' EM waves, or tax for
> their usage. This is hardly like a road where someone has put down
> tarmac or a railway where someone's laid track & sleeper, or a canal
> where someone's dug it out and filled it with water. This is merely
> EM spectrum. It's almost like renting time on electrons or something.
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> Nobody would deny that interference requires regulation, but after
> that...
It's the same with permission to use thought (BM and SW patents).
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