'New Reality' of Spectrum Sharing RequiresrnInnovative Technology, NTIA's Strickling Says

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Spectrum sharing is the “new reality” and is the only way U.S. industry and government agenciesrnwill be able to meet their long-term spectrum needs, said NTIA Administrator Larry Strickling Tuesday atrna joint NTIA-National Institute of Standards and Technology event. Strickling and members of other federalrnagencies highlighted the importance of developing new technologies to make spectrum sharing as effectivernas possible. He urged stakeholders not to dismiss spectrum sharing as a “perfectly hopeless notion,”rnnoting that in the 1920s then-Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover predicted that wireless telecomrnwould work only as a means for mass communication, not for individual conversation. “Hooverrnfailed miserably at predicting the future of wireless communications and the lesson we should all drawrnfrom that is that none of us will ever quite know where technology will take us in the end,” Strickling said.