The trouble is, is any investment in new wireless equipment in the new usable range likely to go through the same problems, as the FCC continue to sell off chunks of the spectrum that don't have massive corporate backing for protection?

The article touches on perhaps the wrong point, in a way. I'm not sure that interference from US, as low powered as most of our wireless devices are, will be much of a problem, but interference from the new owners of this spectrum will certainly effect us...