From the article: "Aiming to boost wireless bandwidth and innovation, the U.S.
Federal Communications Commission is poised to recommend the biggest regulatory
change in decades: one that allows a newly available chunk of wireless spectrum
to be leased by different companies at different times and places, rather than
being auctioned off to one high bidder…. Cisco Systems estimates that mobile
data traffic will grow by a factor of 18 by 2016, and Bell Labs predicts it
will increase by a factor of 25. Many more airwaves could eventually be shared
with the help of cognitive radios, which sense available frequencies and shift
between them." Read more