FCC Chairman Worries About iPhone Spectrum Demands
In a talk with Businessweek last Friday, the Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski expressed a new problem concerning the incredible grow of the iPhone and similar devices on the market. The available spectrum for mobile communication is starting to be seriously eaten up by the increased data usage on carrier networks. Here is the problem in his own words :
The demands that are being created by the iPhone and other mobile broadband technologies threaten to outstrip the amount of spectrum that’s available for commercial mobile, and it’s important for the country that we get long-term planning right here because it takes time to identify spectrum and put it on the market. We’re looking at potential innovations in spectrum policy, like secondary licensing for spectrum, and other more creative ideas for unlicensed spectrum.
Businessweek also discovered that he is actually an iPhone user himself (his favorite app would be Star Walk).
There you have a new reason to worry that the world as we know it is going down...
[via Businessweek]
