FCC commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel wants the industry to throw away ‘the tired notion that we face a choice between licensed and unlicensed spectrum’. The major operators may defend the value of their expensively bought frequencies to the hilt, but the world is moving towards more flexible approaches, and the FCC is becoming increasingly willing to embrace that, rather than protecting narrow cellco interests. Addressing a conference called Moving Wi-Fi Forward, Rosenworcel said that ‘good spectrum policy requires both’ types of spectrum, and denied that Wi-Fi’s success had been at the expense of ‘others who wish to use the airwaves’. Recent FCC policies to open up more capacity for Wi-Fi, to support spectrum sharing in government bands, and to enable the…