It is another front for the Vansie scam. The same people who nearly succeeded in handing over our entire Eskom/Transnet fiber infrastructure to India, but were foiled with Infraco.
http://www.openspectrum.org.za/principles/
"...At the moment there are two opposite poles in spectrum allocation thinking. Licensed for exclusive use and free for all. We need some middle ground. Interference free spectrum, efficiency shared to reduce barriers to entry...."
Which as explained here is a self-serving:
http://bit.ly/GoDoL
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http://www.greaterdemocracy.org/OpenSpectrumFAQ.html '''Myth of spectrum scarcity'''
Technology has evolved since the Titanic went down. The laws and policies in existence today address limitations of the technology of the early 1900's. Interference — which we've treated as as law of nature — is an artifact of the way radio were designed 100 years ago. If interference isn't an issue, then the reasons we started to license spectrum become irrelevant. In fact, the core premise that has undergirded our spectrum policy has dissolved: There is no scarcity of spectrum. It does not need to be doled out. On the contrary, there is an abundance of spectrum. Our current policies prevent us from benefiting from this abundance.
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http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger ''Dawid Weinberger author of Open Spectrum''
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http://dir.salon.com/story/tech/feature/2003/03/12/spectrum/print.html
Spectrum is more like the colors of the rainbow, including the ones our eyes can't discern. Says Reed: "There's no scarcity of spectrum any more than there's a scarcity of the color green. We could instantly hook up to the Internet everyone who can pick up a radio signal, and they could pump through as many bits as they could ever want. We'd go from an economy of digital scarcity to an economy of digital abundance."
Reed prefers to talk about "RF [radio frequency] color," because the usual alternative is to think of spectrum as some large swatch of property. If it's property, it is easily imagined as finite and something that can be owned. If spectrum is color, it's a lot harder to think of in that way. Reed would recast the statement "WABC-AM has an exclusive license to broadcast at 770 kHz in NYC" to "The government has granted WABC-AM an exclusive license to the color Forest Green in NYC." Only then, according to Reed, does the current licensing policy sound as absurd as it is.
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http://www.weblogsky.com/works/weinberger.html
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http://gullfoss2.fcc.gov/prod/ecfs/retrieve.cgi?native_or_pdf=pdf&id_document=6513201206 ''
'''Changing Technology Changes the Problem:'''
Imagine we were to give 50,000 different competent radio system engineers the following task: Design a pair of walkie talkies so that two people will be able to talk to each other while sitting in two (arbitrary, non-adjacent) seats at the football stadium. There will be 49,999 other engineers doing the same thing you are, and all of their solutions will also be in use. You are allowed no communication with the other 49,999 engineers. (You are encouraged to imagine what they might do.) There are no regulatory constraints. Make your solution robust so that you are sure that it will work. 50 or more years ago, very few, or perhaps none would succeed. 25 years ago, some would succeed. Today most would succeed, perhaps all of them. In the very near future, I expect all would succeed easily. And as Moore's Law marches on, the cost of a successful solution is dropping rapidly. Such as with [[FpGa]]
