Verizon has paid many billions of dollars to license spectrum over the years.  It is in their business interest to charge customers $10 per GB of data while offloading the traffic onto free spectrum.  Qualcomm wants to sell millions of new chips that will be required to power this new scenario.<p>It would be extremely unwise to let them push LTE-U thru without lots of independent testing and analysis.  Even then there is a case to be made for keeping some spectrum &#x27;open&#x27; and unlicensed lest we see it all end up owned by a handful of corporations.