Letters

摘要

There was one very valuable item missing from your list of state-owned assets that could be privatised: wireless spectrum, or radio frequencies used by television, radar and other applications ("Setting out the store", January 11th). With the ever-growing demand for wireless devices some countries are auctioning their spectrum. But in too many places spectrum is wasted, or when it is assigned it is not done so by auction or other market mechanisms but through government com-mand-and-control allocations.