As climate-induced physical and transition risks to corporations are becoming more and more material, investors are increasingly scrutinizing a patchwork of voluntary climate-related communications–namely public disclosures, emission reduction commitments, and soft information from earnings...

The right to use US radio frequency spectrum is extremely valuable. Unlike most property rights, licenses to use radio spectrum are granted for limited terms and carry significant restrictions on how the radio spectrum is used. Economic efficiency suggests that existing license rights should be...

Wireless networks have long been described as wired networks with wireless links at the edge. This observation has important implications as 5G is rolled out. One of the innovations of 5G is to push the wired part of the network closer to the user, and the need for high capacity and low latency...

For this analysis, we identified in each county: 1) the licensees which hold spectrum; 2) larger corporate affiliations, if applicable; and 3) the amount of spectrum controlled for each of the above referenced bands, including the effects of spectrum partitioning, dis-aggregation and/or leasing....

Voluntary incentive auctions for the spectrum currently occupied by television broadcasters should be an important part of meeting exploding demand for radio spectrum. Despite recent allocations of licensed spectrum and demand management techniques for wireless carriers, such as WiFi offloading...

The FCC’s Broadcast Incentive Auction repurposed 70 MHz of spectrum from use for over-the-air television broadcasts to mobile broadband uses. This incentive auction was likely the most complicated auction in history and overcame numerous technical, engineering and auction design issues. Its...

Local authorities are often involved in determining the competitive landscape of important services. In particular, Section 253 of the Telecommunications Act, in part, states that a local authority cannot 'prohibit or have the effect of prohibiting the ability of any entity to provide any...

On April 9, 2010, after much delay, the Indian government began two auctions to license third generation cellular (3G) and broadband wireless access (BWA) spectrum. The Indian wireless market has been hugely successful to date with a very competitive marketplace of more than 400 million 2G...