Why are we paying for any spectrum in that case? What's the value of the spectrum? It's nothing, because the amount of money that you can return on the capital is zero. You you have to make it affordable for those people, and for the companies to be able to provide that. It's true that you might have to subsidize the existence of that as a government entity forever. It's possible.
On February 1st, 2018. See this statement in context.