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	<description>The Musings of an Expatriate in European Communications</description>
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		<title>Back to the Future Station</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Jul 2010 14:28:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kenneth Carter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On my recent business trip to Tokyo, I had the opportunity to have lunch with my good friend Hajime Kii and his family.  I know Kii-san when he was a senior executive at NTT America and I was working at CITI at Columbia University.  Kii-san was kind enough to arrange a visit to NTT DOCOMO’s Future Station while I was in town.  The Future Station is where DOCOMO presents a film showcasing its high-concept vision of its product and service offerings for the near-term future.  The Future Station is very cool.  Being there reminded me why I got into telecommunications in the first place – because tomorrow will always a brighter day with bigger (smaller), better, faster and Cooler Stuff.]]></description>
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		<title>Next Generation Spectrum Regulation</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 19:03:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kenneth Carter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have just completed a major study on next generation spectrum regulation which can serve as the basis for removing certain barriers to spectrum access, allowing more effective sharing and efficient allocations.  I can think of no reason why a properly designed auction could not determine not only who gets the spectrum rights, but what those rights are.

You cannot see, touch, taste, smell, or hear radio spectrum.  Spectrum is not a thing; it is an idea – a legal and engineering construct that explains a physical phenomenon and helps us arrange our behavior accordingly.  That fundamental physical phenomenon is the fact that when electromagnetic waves are: (1) harmonic in frequency; (2) incident in time; and (3) alight on the same reception device, the ability of those waves to be used as information carriers is degraded.  This deleterious effect is known to us as interference.  Without some form of intervention, it is impossible to exclude or limit the use of a common resource such as spectrum. Without exclusion, users consume the spectrum without regard to fact that their usage causes the deleterious effect of interference for other would-be users.  Policies which help to mitigate inference with the least amount of effort will be the most socially beneficial.]]></description>
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		<title>Cool Cube</title>
		<link>http://kennethrcarter.com/CoolStuff/2009/10/cool-cube/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 20:32:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kenneth Carter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On my trip to Japan earlier this month, I was invited by my good friend Prof. Harumasa Sato to speak to his undergraduate students at the Konan University in Kobe.  Prof. Sato did not ask me to talk about spectrum, Net Neutrality, interconnection, or some other issue in communications.  Rather, he asked me to speak [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No, Mr. Bond, I expect you to dive!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2008 23:08:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kenneth Carter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The other day while I was waiting for a haircut, I picked up a German auto magazine. Since I cannot read German, I figured I would get more out of it than any other magazine. At the very least I could make some sense of the classifieds. Well, I found this, the sQuba. It is [...]]]></description>
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