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Using a Market to Obtain the Efficient Allocation of Interference Rights
June 01 2012
Mark Bykowsky and William Sharkey, OSP. FCC Staff Working Paper 4 (June 2012) examines possible alternatives to the current administrative process for identifying the efficient allocation of signal interference rights. It shows how the...
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Potential Impacts on Communications from IPv4 Exhaustion & IPv6 Transition
December 01 2010
Robert Cannon, OSP. FCC Staff Working Paper 3 (Dec 2010) discusses the Internet’s difficult migration to the new Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) address space. This migration is necessary because the original address space...
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Maximum Impact for Minimum Subsidy: Reverse Auctions for Universal Access in Chile and India
October 01 2010
Irene S. Wu, International Bureau. FCC Staff Working Paper 2 (Oct 2010) considers how U.S. government funding for universal service and broadband support programs could be quicker and more efficient. To improve efficiency and speed in...
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Transformative Choices: A Review of 70 Years of FCC Decisions
October 01 2010
Sherille Ismail, OSP FCC Staff Working Paper 1 (Oct 2010) presents a historical review of a series of pivotal FCC decisions that helped shape today’s communications landscape. These decisions generally involve the appearance of a new...
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Enhancing Spectrum's Value via Market-Informed Congestion Etiquettes
February 01 2008
Mark Bykowsky, Kenneth Carter, Mark Olson, and William Sharkey. OSP Working Paper 41 (Feb 2008) evaluates the ability of different wireless spectrum congestion etiquettes to promote the efficient use of wireless spectrum in the presence of...
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Modeling the Efficiency of Spectrum Designated to License Use and Unlicensed Operations
February 01 2008
Mark Bykowsky, Mark Olson, and William Sharkey. OSP Working Paper 42 (February 2008). Obtaining the economically efficient use of spectrum requires that the price signals that guide its allocation and use be competitive. One approach involves...
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A Market-Based Approach to Establishing Licensing Rules: Licensed versus Unlicensed Use of Spectrum
February 01 2008
Mark Bykowsky, Mark Olson, and William Sharkey. OSP Working Paper 43 (February 2008) addresses the issue of how best to identify the most desirable allocation rules for spectrum. This paper focuses on issues associated with licensed use and...
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The Scarcity Rationale for Regulating Traditional Broadcasting: An Idea Whose Time Has Passed
March 01 2005
John Berresford. Media Bureau Staff Research Paper 2005-2 concludes that the Scarcity Rationale for regulating traditional broadcasting is no longer valid. The Scarcity Rationale is based on fundamental misunderstandings of physics and...
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Competition between Cable Television and Direct Broadcast Satellite – It’s More Complicated than You Think
January 27 2005
Andrew Wise and Kiran Duwadi. Media Bureau Staff Research Paper No. 2005-1 (Jan 2005) is also listed as "International Bureau Working Paper No. 3" because it was done jointly by the two bureaus. It examines the substitutability between...
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A Survival Analysis of Cable Networks
December 01 2004
Keith Brown. Media Bureau Staff Research Paper 2004-1 (Dec 2004) employs survival and duration analysis to determine how subscriber levels affect the cable networks’ survival probabilities. It finds that a cable network that grows at the...
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