Fundraising drive on commercial radio WIZZ-1520 (Greenfield, MA)

[Garrett Wollman]

<<On Thu, 17 Sep 2009 00:56:40 -0400, "Don A" <donald_astelle@yahoo.com> said:

> I have to disagree garrett.  Maybe in metro Boston....but in the burbs 
> outside 128, NH and here in VT...there are lots of dead spots.

> It's getting better...but in my experiene there are still a lot of dead 
> spots...and the public would never put up with trying to 'radio' that way in 
> it's current state.

The population in those places is not all that significant to start
with, and is becoming less so every year.  Most of "the public"
doesn't live in rural areas any more.

The real fight is going to be over the sort of licensing that will be
required for these systems.  The computer industry wants unlicensed,
or at most "lite licensed", spectrum to predominate; the entrenched
telecommunications companies (cell and landline carriers) want
heavy-licensed, exclusive spectrum allocations with the concomitant
spectrum auctions and very high barriers to entry, to maintain their
oligopoly and make it uneconomical for potential competitors to gain a
foothold (unless their names begin with "Google" or "Microsoft" and
have billions to throw away in the name of market share).

-GAWollman