The secondary use of vacant television channels (TV white spaces) and the reallocation of the digital dividend to provide wireless broadband services are in the final stages of implementation in some countries. Originally seen as a once in a generation opportunity to better allocate UHF...

We examine the potential for expansion of the white space spectrum sharing model in the 400MHz band. As opposed to UHF broadcast spectrum, which contains unassigned or idle segments known as white spaces, the 400MHz band is characterised by intensive licence usage. However, productive spectrum...

The focus of this report is to assess the available evidence of the impact on the Australian and global economies of the Australian Telecommunications and Other Legislation Amendment (Assistance and Access) Act 2018 (better known as “TOLA”). TOLA created a framework by which law enforcement...

Optimal control theory is employed to characterize the socially optimal trajectory of the royalty per channel and the number of royalty-paying users of state-owned spectrum for broadcasting. The spectrum royalty is set by an omniscient public planner to maximize the sum of the discounted...

Legislative reforms in Anglo-American countries require governments to account for efficient spectrum usage subject to interference control. New spectrum governance regimes promote flexible and competitive usage but the broadcasting industry remains exempt from reforms, at a significant cost to...