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FCC Spectrum Management: Sometimes 2 + 2 = 4, Sometimes It Doesn’t
In an opinion published in the Wall Street Journal last week, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski admonished us to keep “discussions focused on solving problems, and on facts...
View ArticleDOJ Files Political Screed Asking FCC to Rig Spectrum Incentive Auction
“The DOJ’s recommendation would likely reduce the amount of revenue produced by the incentive auction and risk leaving the public safety network unfunded (as the economist who led the design of the...
View ArticleBroadcast Incentive Auction Webinar Archive
Last week’s CLIP & Wiley Rein webinar, Balancing Competing Goals in the Spectrum Incentive Auction, will be available for ninety days at this link. My remarks during the webinar are printed below....
View ArticleDOJ Spectrum Plan Is Not Supported by Economic Theory or FCC Findings
Frontline relied on the DOJ foreclosure theory to predict that the lack of eligibility restrictions in the 700 MHz auction would “inevitably” increase prices, stifle innovation, and reduce the...
View ArticleFCC Commissioner Rosenworcel’s Speech on Spectrum Policy Reveals Intellectual...
This week at CTIA 2013, FCC Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel presented ten ideas for spectrum policy. Though I don’t agree with all of them, she articulated a reasonable vision for spectrum policy that...
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Maximizing the Success of the Incentive Auction
I prepared a report for the Expanding Opportunities for Broadcasters Coalition and Consumer Electronics Association entitled Maximizing the Success of the Incentive Auction, which was filed at the...
View ArticleIn His Bid to Buy T-Mobile, Sprint Chairman Slams US Wireless Policies that...
Sprint’s Chairman, Masayoshi Son, is coming to Washington to explain how wireless competition in the US would be improved if only there were less of it. After buying Sprint last year for $21.6 billion,...
View ArticleH Block Auction Shows Need for Clearer Limits on FCC Spectrum Authority
This post was originally published by FierceWireless here. The Federal Communications Commission declared the auction of spectrum in the H block “successful” because (1) it licensed spectrum that could...
View ArticleT-Mobile Spectrum Song Is A Broken Record At The FCC
This week the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is voting on procedures for an upcoming auction of spectrum (or airwaves) that will expand wireless broadband services to Apple and Android...
View ArticleSprint’s Decision To Skip Wireless Auction “Highlights The Folly” Of Federal...
Few industry analysts seemed surprised when Sprint’s new CEO announced “after thorough analysis” that the company won’t participate in next year’s auction of TV broadcast spectrum (known as the...
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