Ronald Coase passed away yesterday, four months shy of his 103rd birthday and working right up to the end. An archive search here shows how deeply Coase’s work influences Mike’s and mine, and we are not alone — Coase was one of the most influential economists of the 20th century, an influence made even more …
Lynne Kiesling Up early for a Saturday, for a 6:45 AM Liverpool/Chelsea game (which the good guys won 2-0, even though fave KP hottie Xabi Alonso took a knee to the mouth and had to have stitches) … so inevitably I am trolling for geeky network regulation fodder now that the game’s over. And I …
This story is not a tale of a successful privatization program, but is instead a cautionary tale of how regulation has created a worse outcome than privatization could. Technological innovation is enabling us to use the radio spectrum more intensively than before. This innovation is placing pressure on regulation and property rights issues in the …
Why Doesn’t the Fcc Just Establish Spectrum Property Rights? Read More »
Lynne Kiesling Yesterday’s announcement that the US DOJ would challenge the merger of AT&T’s wireless business with T-Mobile’s was surprising, and their approach to the merger seems to be more conventional and rooted in old HHI-market share and price effect metrics. Their analysis suggests that due to the substantial overlap in the existing separate AT&T …
Quality, Broadband, and Spectrum: What the Doj’s At&t/T-Mobile Lawsuit Misses Read More »
Lynne Kiesling Thanks to Stuart Benjamin at Volokh Conspiracy for his post on spectrum poicy, including a reference to this National Journal article on spectrum. The evidence keeps mounting that a spectrum policy that 1. is based on licensing and not ownership, 2. protects the fractured incumbency, and 3. is so clearly a political and …
How Much More Obvious Does Rethinking Spectrum Policy Have To Be? Read More »
FCC Allows Spectrum License Trading On Thursday the Federal Communications Commission voted to allow spectrum licensees to lease their licensed spectrum to third parties. This long-awaited result now frees spectrum licensees and interested parties to create a secondary market in spectrum licenses. As reported in the New York Times, Officials and industry analysts say the …
FCC Allows Spectrum License Trading On Thursday the Federal Communications Commission voted to allow spectrum licensees to lease their licensed spectrum to third parties. This long-awaited result now frees spectrum licensees and interested parties to create a secondary market in spectrum licenses. As reported in the New York Times, Officials and industry analysts say the …
FCC Allows Spectrum License Trading On Thursday the Federal Communications Commission voted to allow spectrum licensees to lease their licensed spectrum to third parties. This long-awaited result now frees spectrum licensees and interested parties to create a secondary market in spectrum licenses. As reported in the New York Times, Officials and industry analysts say the …
FCC Allows Spectrum License Trading On Thursday the Federal Communications Commission voted to allow spectrum licensees to lease their licensed spectrum to third parties. This long-awaited result now frees spectrum licensees and interested parties to create a secondary market in spectrum licenses. As reported in the New York Times, Officials and industry analysts say the …
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