It won’t be long, historically speaking, before spectrum auctions may become technologically obsolete, economically inefficient, and legally unconstitutional.
And it may not be long before a new form of frequency allocation may emerge where spectrum use does not require any license; when information traverses the ether as flexibly as an airplane in the sky instead of being straight-jacketed into a single frequency and routed like a train on a track; and where congestion is avoided not by the exclusivity of ownership but by access charges that vary with congestion, with the information itself often paying for access with tokens it carries along.
Sounds like TV is sitting on 402 MHz of unused bandwidth, trying to keep wireless out of it more or less like the dog in the manger.
I think the FCC is seriously out of whack. When you seriously reflect on what broadcast does to our culture . . . we-the-people can make good use of two-way wireless, but have no need of 402 MHz of additional read-only claptrap.