The Spectrum As Commons: Tomorrow's Vision, Not Today's Prescription
评论了Eli Noam将电磁频谱视为开放公共资源的提议，指出其可能增加标准化电信服务的成本，并认为政府拍卖是提高频谱效率的市场手段。
Eli Noam has proposed using nascent technologies to treat the electromagnetic spectrum as an open‐access commons rather than as a subdivided collection of property rights. In his view, public auctions reduce competition, threaten free speech, foster fiscal mismanagement, and presume illegitimate government ownership of spectrum. But government auctioning is our collective decision to sell that which we all “own” to foster spectrum efficiency via the market. Threats to free speech are exaggerated, especially when asserted on behalf of corporations. Noam correctly observes that a government auctioneer might make too little spectrum available, but concerns about fostering oligopoly are exaggerated. His open‐access alternative would likely increase the cost of assembling the substantial long‐term rights to use spectrum for standardized, reliable telecommunication services. If the benefits of open access ever exceed the costs, spectrum owners could carry out the necessary subdivision, management, and congestion‐based pricing.