Qualcomm has added its weight to calls for more flexibility and agility in the allocation of spectrum for mobile services. This is a long-running sore for the industry, which has traditionally divided telcos and regulators, given their somewhat divergent interests. Regulators seek control over their assets, and in many cases to maximize revenues as well as control rate of deployment; while telcos desire greater flexibility and faster liberation of prime spectrum, as well as affordability. There has also been tension between telcos and enterprises, as the latter seek direct access to spectrum for private networks, while the former wants to derive extra revenues from that quarter to help achieve ROI on 5G deployments, as consumer ARPUs flatline. More recently though,…