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1. Bribe some politicians

2. Get some telecom / spectrum management laws repealed / rewritten

3. Replace the board of directors of the local equivalent of the FCC

4. Profit!

Seriously, I think it is quite hard, next to impossible to just go shopping for some spectrum in any country with a population density and / or wireless telecom infrastructure above a certain level, unless you are a major corporation or government entity.

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I think your post is a slight exaggeration, but you do need a fair chunk of coin. Mining companies in Australia have been buying spectrum licenses for private LTE networks, with those licenses being considerably cheaper than the carrier-grade licenses for 700MHz spectrum (i.e. licenses that are $100m+).

As I touched on in another comment though: getting hold of spectrum is only half the solution. You also need devices that can talk X technology in Y band. This can limit you severely: USB dongles are usually the only option here, and not all devices can accept a USB dongle as an additional radio (i.e. smartphones, tablets).

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