1/ Radio spectrum is invisible money. Rights to use it are defined by regulations that involve "service rules." The radio waves have properties and interactions that aren't simple to understand. The best radio engineers know that its properties make understanding it a black art.
2/ Radio spectrum is sometimes shared with other services and may interfere with nearby users. The service rules must be internationally coordinated since the radio waves don't respect national borders and because the earth moves as do satellites not in geostationary orbits.
3/ The fighting between users of radio spectrum in regulatory forums never ends because the service rules are often not specific and new technologies are created. When people fight at a regulator like the US FCC they are battling over invisible money. This fighting won't stop.
4/ Billions of dollars in value can be at stake in these regulatory battles over the invisible money that is radio spectrum. People joke that academic politic are so nasty because the stakes are so low. Battles over radio spectrum are nasty because the stakes are so high.
5/ I could cite lots of examples of battles over invisible money. This is one such fight: advanced-television.com/2021/08/31/ama…
6/ You want another example of a regulatory proceeding involving invisible money? As always, the radio spectrum service rules are critical. fiercewireless.com/operators/t-mo…
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