Caleb Lawson
CSC 540
4/27/2015
Questions: The Wireless Spectrum Crunch
1. Why are cellphone carriers buying up large portions of wireless spectrum from the FCC?
a) To conserve the wireless spectrum for all purely electromagnetic entities.
b) To provide enough bandwidth for their user-base, due to increased data usage.
c) To launch a shadow government, intent on controlling the minds of our citizens.
d) To crowd out the radio space, so that you will have to buy a cellphone plan to use your
microwave.
2. What government agency oversees wireless communications in the US?
a) FBI
b) GAO
c) FCC
d) FTC
3. How does the FCC allocate wireless spectrum today?
a) Lotteries
b) Popularity Contests
c) Auctions
d) Hearings
4. About how many people own a smartphone in the US?
a) 20
b) 160,000
c) 171,500,000
d) 365,247,000
5. FCC stands for:
a) Federal Capitalism Commission
b) Fund Commercial Cartel
c) Federal Communication Commission
d) Functional Communication Computers