The Radio Frequency Spectrum Explosion

In the last few years, the electromagnetic spectrum has quietly become a critical part of contemporary life. It enables you to communicate with mobile phones, use remote controls, tune in TV stations, pop corn in the microwave, open your car door without a key, listen to radio stations, and surf the Internet when you’re sipping coffee at Starbucks.

How we cordon off some parts of this wide spectrum of frequencies is becoming so crucial that battle lines are forming that will have an impact on thousands of businesses and hundreds o.....