Because without limits / licenses, company A uses range 1-5Hz, while company B uses 3-8Hz. Now A gets reports that B's equipment are interfering, but fixes that quickly by bumping up power. A gets connectivity, B loses. Until they get the reports...
It's not like everything will suddenly stop working. We'd just have a constant war of A vs B vs C vs ... For a similar situation see the internet's buffer bloat. Everyone goes "how do we make the connection faster? bigger buffers!" and now we all have crazy buffer sizes on each node in path and all get crappy connections because of it. We do sabotage ourselves all the time in technology.
That's not how markets work. The war-mongering companies would quickly disappear, as they wouldn't be able to deliver service to their paying customers. The providers willing to work together, and actually make it work, would win over the clients of these other aggressive companies.
Companies that spend time sabotaging each other, rather than focusing on delivering service to their clients, deserve to die. And, in any sane economy, they will.
> That's not how markets work. [...] The providers willing to work together, and actually make it work, would win over the clients of these other aggressive companies.
Can you bring up some good examples of that? We've got the mentioned loudness war, patent trolls, insurance companies with race to the bottom, people destroying the earth right now and who will keep ignoring global warming where it's profitable, antibiotic resistance via over-prescription, internet buffer bloat, software size bloat, etc.
I love the idealistic view of the sane economy, but no, that's so not how markets work at the moment. Especially in this case - how exactly would any non-war-mongering company stay in business if the name of the game is "how wide/loud can you transmit"? It's not that companies are sabotaging each other. It's that if companies can make a better product on an unregulated RF market, they will. This will most likely get into someone else's way and those in turn will have to upgrade as well. There's only constant improvement on both sides.
If you're able to find any, you can compare the output spectrum from any RF toy that's FCC registered and one that's not. Guess which one bleeds noise on a wider spectrum around it's intended frequency.
Yes but the current economic system is not evolving in an idealistic world. You will have deception, bridery and other coercision method to push other players out of the market.
It's not like everything will suddenly stop working. We'd just have a constant war of A vs B vs C vs ... For a similar situation see the internet's buffer bloat. Everyone goes "how do we make the connection faster? bigger buffers!" and now we all have crazy buffer sizes on each node in path and all get crappy connections because of it. We do sabotage ourselves all the time in technology.