Spectrum policy: A matter of life or death - Fortune Brainstorm Tech

I have been active in the wireless industry since the mid 1980s and privileged to witness one of the most transformative periods in the history of modern communications. Wireless technology has advanced in countless ways in recent decades, but there has always been, and will always be, one fundamental truth. Spectrum matters.

There has been a great deal of talk lately about the impact of consumer wireless devices, particularly smart phones, on our mobile networks. Many of us enjoy using wireless data networks to access video and other bandwidth intensive applications as we go about our day...