info: Volume 8 Issue 2

How free is the radio spectrum?

Erik Bohlin, Arnd Weber, Brigitte Preissl

New technologies provide new opportunities for radio spectrum allocation and frequency use. This article seeks to summarize papers that form a special issue on spectrum…

Spectrum for the next radio revolution: the economic and technical case for collective use

Simon Forge, Colin Blackman

New technologies challenge the traditional view that the radio spectrum must be tightly controlled and the new orthodoxy that a market‐based approach is the most efficient way to…

The radio spectrum: opportunities and challenges for the developing world

Björn Wellenius, Isabel Neto

This paper seeks to examine current trends in spectrum management and implications for developing countries.

Policy issues in spectrum trading

Patrick Xavier, Dimitri Ypsilanti

An aspect of spectrum reform receiving increasing attention is the introduction of secondary markets for spectrum in order to enable more flexibility to reassign unused and…

The social value of TV band spectrum in European countries

Thomas W. Hazlett, Jürgen Müller, Roberto Muñoz

This paper aims to estimate the social gains from an analog TV switch‐off in 13 EU countries, focusing on the value of TV band spectrum in alternative uses.

Secondary use of spectrum: a survey of the issues

Martin Weiss

The purpose of this paper is to construct a framework for discussion and future studies of the secondary use of electromagnetic spectrum.

Spectrum governance regimes: efficiency properties and policy choices

Steven S. Wildman, Johannes M. Bauer, Carol Ting

This paper proposes to describe a model and the results of a simulation exercise used to compare welfare outcomes for four governance regimes that might be employed for wireless…