The phrase "amount of spectrum" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the quantity or extent of a particular range of frequencies, often in the context of telecommunications or radio waves.
Example: "The amount of spectrum allocated for mobile networks has increased significantly in recent years."
Alternatives: "quantity of spectrum" or "extent of spectrum".
Sprint relies on awkward partnerships to secure the amount of spectrum it needs to build a new network.
British regulators have been keen to keep prices low by ensuring all four operators come away with a viable amount of spectrum from the forthcoming 4G airwaves auction.
Mr. Hundt estimates that at the current rate of growth, the government must nearly triple the amount of spectrum available for wireless Internet the next five years.
The company has also argued that the amount of spectrum that a combined AT&T and T-Mobile would control would be anticompetitive.
Republicans on the subcommittee also sparred with Mr. Genachowski over whether the F.C.C. should limit the amount of spectrum any one company could own.
The way to regulate the spectrum was by market forces; users should pay rent for the amount of spectrum consumed, as if it were water.
Together with an F.C.C. decision last week for a gradual elimination of a cap on the amount of spectrum that a mobile phone company can own in a single market, the settlement strengthens the hand of the largest wireless carriers.
The Bush administration, he said, "should be trying to increase the amount of spectrum for unlicensed devices, as opposed to imposing new, retroactive restrictions right as the market is taking off".
Rebecca Arbogast, who follows the market closely for Stifel Nicolaus, said that Verizon Wireless, which went into the auction well behind AT&T in the amount of spectrum it owned, acquired the least expensive bandwidth.
India's armed forces, as well as its railways and space programme, hog an unduly large amount of spectrum, doled out to them when the radio waves were as sparsely populated as the Himalayan peaks.
Companies that bid for a few large regions to obtain nationwide spectrum paid almost twice as much as firms with the equivalent amount of spectrum assembled from hundreds of licences in smaller areas.
