The Wireless Spectrum Crisis 2010

There's no shortage of complaints in the U.S. over the perceived shortage of wireless spectrum: Failure to get cellular phone service, interference from neighbors' Wi-Fi home networks, and slow download speeds due to overcrowding. Some have dubbed 2010 a year of wireless congestion.

As folks like Christopher Mims (Technology Review) and Dan Reed (Microsoft Research) point out, spectrum doesn't need to be scarce if the industry simply did a better job of provisioning and dynamically load balancing it. Entrepreneurs looking for a new business idea or students needing a research project would do well to look into this area; it looks like one of the most critical problems in networking to solve this decade.

→ More - Crisis in Availability of Wireless Spectrum is a Myth (technologyreview.com)
→ More - Spectrum Future Shock (hpcdan.org)

United States Radio Spectrum - Frequency Allocations - Graphic: www.ntia.doc.gov