ABSTRACT

Until the 1990s, almost all spectrum licenses were given away practically for free-even the first mobile licenses which laid the foundation for multi-billion dollar companies that dominate stock markets around the world. In the past fifteen years, there has been a concerted attempt to liberalise the sector and make it more open to market forces. Th

chapter 1|6 pages

Introduction

chapter 2|14 pages

The Promise of Liberalisation

chapter 3|16 pages

A Spectrum Engineering Primer

chapter 5|8 pages

The Liberalised Licensing Debate

chapter 6|18 pages

Public Sector Spectrum

chapter 7|20 pages

Broadcasting

chapter 8|16 pages

Satellite

chapter 9|8 pages

Ultra Wide Band

chapter 10|12 pages

Wi-Fi and the Spectrum Commons

chapter 11|10 pages

The Whitespace Concept

chapter 12|2 pages

Introduction to Part III

chapter 13|10 pages

The Capacity Crunch

chapter 15|6 pages

Why Does Trading Have Such Patchy Success?

chapter 16|10 pages

Mobile Networks : From Sharing to Wholesale

chapter 18|20 pages

Criticisms of Auctions

chapter 20|8 pages

Licensed Shared Access

chapter 22|10 pages

Future Technologies

chapter 23|6 pages

Conclusions