An absolutely accurate observation can be made the the global mobile service provider business has relied on access to licensed spectrum to support its business models. Just as certainly, supply and demand affects prices of spectrum, as well as the value of spectrum.
It also is just as accurate to note that some other service providers have relied just as substantially on access to unlicensed spectrum; and to note that unlicensed spectrum now is a substantial method to support mobile access indoors, as a complement to licensed access.
Itr would be equally true to argue that shared spectrum and unlicensed spectrum now are viewed as major opportunities by a growing number of tier-one application and now device suppliers, enterprises, infrastructure and device suppliers, including Apple, which wants the U.S. Federal Communications Commission to increase the amount of unlicensed spectrum to be made available above 95 GHz on an unlicensed basis, and on a shared basis.
Apple also wants wider contiguous bands of spectrum, creating blocks of spectrum wider than 1 GHz to 7 GHz.
A larger point is that licensed spectrum essentially acts a means to create scarcity, historically seen as a business asset by mobile service providers. Unlicensed spectrum arguably always acts to decrease scarcity, and therefore increases the potential for competition.
So it should come as no surprise that tier-one application, platform and device suppliers favor greater reliance on unlicensed and shared spectrum. Those assets make it easier for application, platform or device suppliers to create communications capabilities that support use of their products and business models.
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