By Jesse Sunenblick
Columbia Journalism Review at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, CJR January/February 2005
This article considers the origins, present uses and possible transformative properties of a new frequency-hopping technology called "spread spectrum". Currently, the transformative powers of spread spectrum are difficult to tap into due to old FCC restrictions on spectrum, and the private industry's designs for privatizing the remainder of unlicensed spectrum.
