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Copyright ┬й2000 by Edward M. Lerner

First published in Analog, November 2000


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CHAPTER 1


Dom Perignon flowed and beluga vanished. A chamber orchestra played Bach. Crystal chandeliers
sparkled and gold-rimmed china gleamed. An indoor fountain sprayed upwards around an enormous ice
swan.

The ITU knew how to party in style.

From a terrace kept comparatively uncrowded by the chill evening breeze off Lake Geneva, Dean
Matthews observed the gathering. Inside the hotel's Great Ballroom mingled dozens of international civil
servants and hundreds of national delegates. There was an even larger number of тАЬaccredited industry
observers.тАЭ Matthews was one of the lobbyists, representing NetSat, a broadband satcom company.

Completion of a World Administrative Radio Conferencewas cause for celebration. New wireless
technologies, and the implacable growth of older ones, kept the demand for spectrum high. For reasons
of historical interest only, many radio bands had differing uses in different parts of the world: a big
problem as more systems went global. Users of old systems were entitled to replacement bandwidth
when new applications supplanted earlier frequency assignments.