The “airwaves” are used for a variety of communications, including government use and public access like radio. The range of usable territory – the spectrum – is administered by governments as though it were real estate, and is broken up according to wavelength, with an amount apportioned for cell phones, other bits for military pilots, and so on.
有些人建议对天空的管制应遵循对电磁频谱管制的惯例。“电波”被用于多种通讯中，包括政府使用的电波和公众使用的诸如无线电之类的电波。可使用的领域的范围，即频谱，由政府像真正的地产一样进行管制，并且根据波长进行分割，一些被分配给移动电话，一些被分配给军事飞行，如此等等。