Who owns the hall?

[Steve Ordinetz]

Robert S Chase wrote...
>
> The idea of auctioning off the airwaves as property that can be passed on
> is
> a direct extension of that viewpoint. Its suprising this happened since we
> should remember that the government got into regulating radio technical
> matters to prevent interference and to ensure that ships installed and
> used
> radio for safety but from the start it didn't allow monopolies to buy up
> and
> convert to private use the public property called "the airwaves."
>

Are you saying that all spectrum belongs to "the public"?  If not, what
diffrentiates between broadcast frequencies and frequencies set aside for
2-way communications, cellphones, etc?  Should anyone be able to set up
shop & broadcast on any frequency they feel like?