This paper addresses the question of how to record mobile phone license payments in the national accounts. It concludes that there are usually two assets involved with mobile phone licenses: the spectrum, which is owned by the government, and the license, which is an intangible non-produced...

Last July 19th the Mexican Federal Government concluded the auction of the 1.9/2.1 GHz band blocks for Advance Wireless Services (AWS). The auction design and the spectrum cap impose by the Federal Competition Commission led to the participation of only one bidder with a price at the minimum...

Geographic complementarities across licenses being offered within a single FCC spectrum auction have been previously identified (Ausbel, Cramton, McAfee, and McMillian, 1997; Moreton and Spiller, 1998; Fox and Bajari, 2013; Xiao and Yuan, 2021) and have influenced the design of FCC auctions. Here, we...

Im November 2000 fand in Österreich die Versteigerung von Frequenzen für die dritte Mobilfunkgeneration (UMTS) statt. Zuvor waren bei den UMTS-Auktionen in Großbritannien und Deutschland die höchsten jemals bei einer Auktion erreichten Erlöse erzielt worden. Nicht zuletzt deshalb rückte...