Venture capitalist Ram Shriram urged the FCC to make more unlicen...
Venture capitalist Ram Shriram urged the FCC to make more unlicensed spectrum available. The comments came during remarks at a Free Press conference Thursday. Shriram said a review of how spectrum is used shows continuing inefficiency. “I don’t think…
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the spectrum that’s available is being fully utilized,” he said. “And there is a severe lack of unlicensed spectrum below 9 GHz. Even if you combine it with what’s available at 2.4 and 5.8 [GHz], I think you need some available at sub-1 GHz to build some sort of commercially viable last-mile broadband access.” He also expressed concerns about the lack of openness on wireless broadband networks: “The Internet is moving to the wireless world and we don’t have the equivalent of the openness and this notion of any-device-any-application.”