Open Spectrum

Reed Hundt Presentation

To view Reed Hundt's presentation slides from the New America Foundation event "Battle Over the Airwaves: America's Spectrum Shortage for 3G," click on the link below.
February 13, 2001

Who Owns the Sky?

Strange as it may sound, during the next several years Congress will need to decide who owns the sky. That decision will determine whether each American citizen becomes a stakeholder -- receiving "rent" from the private use of natural resources -- or merely a tenant, paying out a thousand or more dollars per year in rent to the government or (more likely) to private interests.

Scientists say we are running out of sky.… more