Spectrum Management Blogging

Just try pitching an editor an article on spectrum management policy some day. I dare you. Well, actually, it turns out I probably should have tried to pitch it to a business magazine, since Forbes ran a big piece on the subject by Tim Wu. The details are kind of dull, but the upshot is that it's very important that the FCC adopt what's called a "right to attach" rule when it auctions off new spectrum in the near future; said right meaning that any device capable of connecting to a network safely (i.e., without screwing up other people's ability to use the network) must be allowed to do so. Matt Stoller has more on the politics.

This article available online at:

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2007/05/spectrum-management-blogging/42386/