Thursday, September 18, 2008 Andrew Seybold
... Spectrum is still a resource we need to cherish and use to the best of our ability, access to wireless is nearly pervasive, we can make calls, send text and pictures, and listen to music and watch videos and TV on our mobile devices. Meanwhile, the local police still cannot talk to the feds, and the feds cannot talk to the military.
We have advanced four or five generations since I wrote this article, yet in some areas we have made very little progress. If 9/11 and Katrina don't push us to solve the issues, what will it take? Every time we plunk down $100 for a phone that can talk around the world we should remember that first responders are plunking down $5,000 to talk within a city or a county. These are not new problems, yet they remain unresolved. I don't want to pull this Commentary out in another twelve years and publish it yet again.
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