Wireless carriers certainly don't need the federal government's help.
I can assure you that the United States intends to pursue the best course of action to meet its own spectrum needs.
The public gets not one penny from them in return for those airwaves.
Government must make spectrum free. There should be free network, but it is not happening.
The electronic spectrum is the only natural resource in which there's no such thing as private property rights. You can't own a piece of the spectrum.
Cellular companies don't innovate, they just buy more spectrum.
The transmission systems are still regulated.
And understand that scarce spectrum is used today for example for cell phone operators, they have to pay for the airwaves they use, for their services.
I personally believe every country has the same amount of spectrum. It is not that India has less... It needs to be vacated from other places; that is what other countries have also done.
The notion that there's finite spectrum is mostly wrong.