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FCC Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel and Marty Cooper, considered...

FCC Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel and Marty Cooper, considered the father of the cellphone, urged the creation of a prize for the first person who devises a way to make spectrum use more efficient. Rosenworcel and Cooper wrote an opinion piece…

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for Monday’s San Jose Mercury News (http://bit.ly/1nABXXu). Under the proposed contest, the first person who devises a way to make low- to mid-band spectrum use 50-100 times more efficient would receive 10 MHz of spectrum suitable for mobile broadband. “That might sound like a small goal and a modest reward, but the impact could be really big,” they wrote. “If the winner can find a way to use spectrum 50 times more efficiently, 10 megahertz of spectrum could do the work of 500 megahertz using today’s technology.”