Post by arfanho7 on Feb 22, 2024 3:41:40 GMT -5
Early in the book for instance he talks about how the government ordered divestiture of AT T created multiple Baby Bells whose decisions would prove integral to developing the industry although the Department of Justice couldn’t have known that at the time. “The divestiture was essential to the later growth of the Internet ” Greenstein says. “It eliminated the ability of one firm to veto what happened next with the Internet.”
He discusses the Federal Communications Commission’s decision to open up a particular swath of radio spectrum for unlicensed use. At the time that spectrum the . GHz band was largely relegated to garage door openers wireless handsets for landline telephones and baby monitors. “Those three applications America Cell Phone Number List were regarded as ‘garbage’ by snobbish engineers because they were technically uninteresting ” Greenstein says. “ ’ too.” That “garbage spectrum” eventually became home to Wi Fi. “By making it unlicensed the FCC permitted the dominant use to migrate from the low value to a higher value ” Greenstein says. “To an economist that’s a wonderful thing.
They got rid of the Gordian knot that results from the hoarding of licensed spectrum which you see quite a lot in the spectrum world.” And he writes about the National Science Foundation grants that allowed Larry Page and Sergey Brin to conduct research at Stanford University which eventually gave rise to Google. It wasn’t that the foundation guided the research but rather that it granted the freedom for the researchers and their academic advisers to pursue new opportunities as they arose.
He discusses the Federal Communications Commission’s decision to open up a particular swath of radio spectrum for unlicensed use. At the time that spectrum the . GHz band was largely relegated to garage door openers wireless handsets for landline telephones and baby monitors. “Those three applications America Cell Phone Number List were regarded as ‘garbage’ by snobbish engineers because they were technically uninteresting ” Greenstein says. “ ’ too.” That “garbage spectrum” eventually became home to Wi Fi. “By making it unlicensed the FCC permitted the dominant use to migrate from the low value to a higher value ” Greenstein says. “To an economist that’s a wonderful thing.
They got rid of the Gordian knot that results from the hoarding of licensed spectrum which you see quite a lot in the spectrum world.” And he writes about the National Science Foundation grants that allowed Larry Page and Sergey Brin to conduct research at Stanford University which eventually gave rise to Google. It wasn’t that the foundation guided the research but rather that it granted the freedom for the researchers and their academic advisers to pursue new opportunities as they arose.
