Today, the ubiquity of mobile devices and the ever-growing demand for mobile data (and wireless services more broadly) make radio spectrum an increasingly important public resource. According to industry estimates, mobile data demand is projected to grow by a cumulative annual growth rate of 26%...

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) regulates the interstate rates for inmate calling services, and over the years, has made some progress in lowering rates from egregiously high historic levels. However, correctional facilities, in large part, rely on the same provider for both voice...

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...

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...

This paper contains two chapters on the economic impact of proposed FCC restrictions on participation in the 2015 spectrum auction, which would limit access to additional spectrum by large incumbent Internet Service providers (ISPs). The first chapter by Holtz-Eakin and Bazelon reports that such...

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...

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...

The model is based on an incumbent serving a franchise area that can be divided into an urban and a rural sub-market. Price is determined by three factors: 1) competition in a (sub-)market; 2) the marginal cost in a (sub-)market; and 3) elasticity of demand in a (sub-)market. Competition clearly...