6 Reasons Why I Believe There Will Not be a Spectrum Shortage in the Next Decade
I recently did a write up on Clearwire (CLWR). In doing the research for that company I came across quite a bit of opinion on the future scarcity of wireless spectrum. At first, this made me question my negative opinion on CLWR. But, after having done quite a bit of reading on the topic, I am less concerned about the predicted future scarcity of wireless broadband spectrum.
As a matter of fact, not only is there not a shortage, there appears to be an over-abundance of wireless spectrum so I would caution those who are currently bidding up the shares of wireless broadband carriers to remember the days in the late 1990's when most people thought that we would not have enough fiber capacity for the oncoming tidal wave of fixed broadband usage. Well we all know how that turned out. The following are a few non-technical reasons why I do not think there will be a wireless broadband spectrum shortage in the next decade.
1) It appears to me that at least currently, there is a large surplus of spectrum. The US market is near full saturation in mobile phones yet I still see multiple cell phone commercials every hour on TV which indicates to me that the carriers, at least currently, are able to add subscribers to their systems without running out of spectrum. It seems like the carriers are simply trading their subscribers between one another.
2) There are many carriers with more spectrum than they currently know what to do with. Take Clearwire for example, they currently have 46bln Mhz-POPs of spectrum serving a tiny 4.4mln subscribers. Their growth in retail subs has slowed and the company is now trying to sell some of its spectrum. Apparently, it is having trouble doing so as this spectrum has been for sale since the middle of last year.
3) The Federal government controls massive amounts of......
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