America needs a wireless communication highway.

In my omnipotent opinion, the country with the fastest, most reliable, and least expensive wireless communication technology will be the economic victor in the next decade. From medical records to books, "all content" is being rapidly digitized. Access to content from anywhere, at anytime, by anyone is the new millennium criteria for a country's  economic success. America developed much of the wireless technology, ergo one would reasonably conclude that America would be first in implementing the best access. However, this conclusion is likely inaccurate. Why?

Because capitalism does have a few problems. In the spirit of promoting competition, America has competing wireless implementation visions, which significantly increases the cost of implementation. China, on the other hand and other non-capitalist countries, can implement a single wireless communication technology with military efficiency. There are arguments for the advantage of implementing competing visions, but it is inarguable that a single vision, or wireless method, is much easier to put in place.

We do not have a highway system for each model car. A Mercedes and a Ford can both run nicely on I-70 coast to coast. We do not need multiple wireless systems either. AT&T, Verizon, Sprint and others have spent, more than $80 billion on competing wireless methodologies, and each plan to spend $billions more. And none of these systems work perfectly.  Everyone I know gets dropped calls somewhere, sometime. The FCC could solve this problem in a heartbeat because all these systems operate under license form the FCC. The FCC should buy the physical wireless assets from each of these firms and establish a national wireless technology highway just like I-70. Then, the FCC should declare a mission to make America's wireless communication the best in the world with access by anyone, at anytime, from anywhere. Otherwise, we will be second to China, Japan and the rest of the world too.

We need leaders with audacious ideas.