The essential input to the exploitation of mobile broadband known as radio spectrum is a scarce resource, whose allocation and eventual assignment by telecommunications regulator and spectrum authorities across the world is of outmost importance. The most popular approach to spectrum assignment...

The Combinatorial Clock Auction (CCA) consists of two main stages: the Allocation stage and the Assignment stage; in turn, the allocation stage is further divided in two: the Clock Rounds and the Supplementary Round. In 2014 and 2015 Industry Canada administered two auctions on the 700 MHz and...

The purpose of this paper is to present a case study of Canada's 700 MHz spectrum auction, which took place at the beginning of 2014. The auction format adopted by the Canadian regulator was the Combinatorial Clock Auction (CCA). In Section 1, we review the band plan for Canada's 700 MHz...

Inspired by the Colombian mobile telecommunications market, this paper reviews the process by which a government's spectrum agency decides on the allocation of new spectrum bands to the mobile communications markets, including 4G and mobile broadband. It discusses the elements the spectrum...

A new method is proposed to divide upcoming spectrum band allocations into two different spectrum license/management right types. The first, a spectrum license, would allow successful auction bidders to rollout mobile radio networks on a long-term nationwide scale as normal. The second is a new...

A new method is proposed to divide upcoming spectrum band allocations into two different spectrum licence / management right types. The first, a spectrum license, would allow successful auction bidders to roll out mobile radio networks on a long-term nationwide scale as normal. The second is a...