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Spectrum a hot topic at Telecom Policy Research Conference

Last weekend's Telecom Policy Research Conference - an annual event in Arlington, Virginia, USA - featured no less than four panels on spectrum (plus one on "Municipal and Community Broadband"). Here are the titles, authors and links to all the spectrum papers:

Spectrum Policy I - New Policy Trends

Moderator: Brian Fontes, Cingular Wireless

• "Toward Property Rights in Spectrum: The Difficult Policy Choices Ahead" by Dale Hatfield and Phil Weiser (both affiliated with the University of Colorado)
• "The Taxation of Spectrum Rights: Tools for Efficiency and Distribution" by Adele C. Morris (US Treasury)
• "A Global Survey of Spectrum License Exemptions" by Michael L. Best (Georgia Tech)
• "Cartography of the Electromagnetic Spectrum: A Review of Wireless Visualization and its Consequences" by Christian Sandvig (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

Spectrum Policy II - Spectrum Allocation Models and Tools

Moderator: Peter Tenhula

• "Licensed vs Unlicensed Spectrum: A New Economic Model for Determining the Trade-offs" by Coleman Bazelon
• "A Transaction Cost Analysis of Secondary vs. Unlicensed Spectrum Use" by Arnon Tonmukayakul and Martin B. H. Weiss (both affiliated with the University of Pittsburgh)
• "Property Rights to Radio Spectrum in Guatemala and El Salvador: An Experiment in Liberalization" by Tom Hazlett (George Mason University); Giancarlo Tharguen (Francisco Marroquín University); and Wayne Leighton (Federal Communications Commission)

Spectrum Policy III - Shared Use of Bandwidth

Moderator: Paul Kolodzy

• "Examining The Wireless Commons" by Douglas C. Sicker, Dirk Grunwald, Eric Anderson, Christian Doerr, Brita Munsinger, and Anmol Sheth (all affiliated with the University of Colorado at Boulder)

• "Spectrum Policy Wonderland: A Critique of Conventional Property Rights and Commons Theory in a World of Low Power Wireless Devices" by J. H. Snider (New America Foundation)
• "Achieving Dynamic Spectrum Allocation: Governance Rules for a Mixed Private-Commons Regime" by Mark Cooper (Stanford University Law School)

Municipal Wireless Initiatives

Moderator: Andrew Clement

• "Why Should Cities Provide Wireless Broadband Access?" by Jed Kolko (Public Policy Institute of California)
• "Lessons from the Left Coast: San Francisco's Community Wireless Broadband Initiative" by Heather Hudson (University of San Francisco)
• " 'Last Mile' or Local Innovation? Canadian Perspectives on Community Wireless Networking as Civic Participation" by Alison Powell (Concordia University)
• "ICT Infrastructure as Public Infrastructure: Exploring the Benefits of Public Wireless Networks" by Catherine A. Middleton (Ryerson University), Graham Longford (University of Toronto), Andrew Clement (University of Toronto) and Amelia Bryne Potter (Ryerson University)

[Spectrum Policy: 3 October 2006]