A study over the use of "beach front spectrum," or spectrum that requires a smaller number of megahertz, has shown that typical suburban areas only use 10% of the available spectrum. Even Manhattan, during one of its biggest political events, only used 18% of its spectrum. Because of this large availability, Michael Calabrese is determined to explore all the ways to make the spectrum of public airwaves available for common use.

At the Emerging Communications Conference of 2009, Calabrese presents four major ways to open the airwave spectrum for more common use: increase access, shrink cell sizes, make more effective use of the spectrum, and have better technology. In order to increase access and more effectively use available airwaves, Calabrese advocates for the end of auctions and exclusivity, citing that many local channels only use a small bit of spectrum a small bit of the time. To this end, low power usage might be the best answer: spectrums can be shared by multiple parties across the nation if users broadcast with fewer megahertz.

Michael Calabrese also notes that cognitive radios can further efficiency, as these radios can search for available channels and switch over when necessary. But in order for that to be efficient, too, we need to take a complete inventory of open airwaves, as well as create a superior television white space database to find all unlicensed channels.

Though he lists several flaws with the current methods of doling out nationally available channels and spectrums, Calabrese thinks these beneficial changes can be implemented in the next several years and the spectrum of public airwaves can be fully and efficiently opened to the public.