Economics of spectrum allocation
Abstract
The effective and efficient allocation and use of the spectrum can be ensured only by a set of sharing rules that will reflect the interests, values, and power of all affected parties. What is now happening is that the new interests and different values of the developing countries are pressing to change the international sharing rules established by a small group of high-technology nations. It is noted that the latter have established a massive telecommunications infrastructure on the basis of inherited sharing rules that reflect only their interests and a much simplified scarcity problem. Once long-term goals and underlying principles of allocation are established, communication technologies and markets can be directed, through a series of adjustment policies, to achieve them. A crucial first step in the creation of an international information environment in which 'free' flows will be balanced flows is the establishment of a balanced and equitable set of sharing rules for the radio spectrum.
- Publication:
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PTC 1983 - Pacific Telecommunications Conference
- Pub Date:
- 1983
- Bibcode:
- 1983ptc..conf..132M
- Keywords:
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- Economic Factors;
- Frequency Assignment;
- Radio Frequencies;
- Telecommunication;
- International Cooperation;
- Policies;
- Politics;
- Resource Allocation;
- Revisions;
- Communications and Radar