The Spectrum Crunch: Causes and Solutions

Technology Policy Institute
March 1, 2013
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
https://techpolicyinstitute.org/events/register/106.html

Panelists will discuss actions that regulators and Congress could take to ensure spectrum is allocated efficiently and available for future wireless services.

In his recent paper, "Is There Really a Spectrum Crisis? Quantifying the Factors Affecting Spectrum License Value," TPI's Scott Wallsten found that spectrum auction prices increased from 2007 - 2011, suggesting that demand for wireless services outpaced technological improvements in spectrum usage and increases in spectrum supply. Both the Federal Communications Commission and Congress have made moving spectrum into the market a priority. Are the proposed spectrum auctions and release of spectrum for unlicensed uses enough to ease the "crunch"?

Current confirmed panelists are:

• Coleman Bazelon, Principal, The Brattle Group
• Gregory Rosston, Senior Research Scholar and Deputy Director, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research
• Scott Wallsten, Vice President for Research and Senior Fellow, Technology Policy Institute
• Thomas Lenard (moderator), President and Senior Fellow, Technology Policy Institute

Additional speakers will be announced soon.

Lunch with be served.

Questions should be directed to Ashley Creel at acreel@techpolicyinstitute.org Members of the press should contact Amy Smorodin at asmorodin@techpolicyinstitute.org.