Comment by hakfoo

I've heard the argument that a lot of the 'scarcity' in RF spectrum comes from chicken-egg problems based on the original allocation strategies.

If you give out a dedicated fixed slice of the spectrum, and high power licenses are pretty limited, you end up treating it as a "circuit switched" resource. I have my narrow sliver at 144.4449MHz and I will use it as I see fit.

If you allocate capacity with the understanding it will be shared, it creates a system where you have to think more "packet switched" -- how do I detect congestion, retry, find less congested workspaces?

The "packet switched" philosophy usually supports a lot more users on the same physical infrastructure