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2. Open Spectrum: A Major Step for U.S. Innovation and Economic Growth
- Author:
- Harold Furchtgott-Roth
- Publication Date:
- 06-2013
- Content Type:
- Working Paper
- Institution:
- Hudson Institute
- Abstract:
- This paper proposes that the Federal Communications Commission adopt rules to allow practically all of the electromagnetic spectrum to be allocated flexibly in response to market conditions and to allow licensees to use their spectrum flexibly. This approach is consistent with the direction of FCC decisions to allow greater spectrum flexibility and would be economically far superior to recent FCC proposals for broadcast spectrum auctions. Spectrum flexibility—or “Open Spectrum”—would eliminate the much-lamented wireless broadband “shortage” without delay and would foster greater innovation in American spectrum markets and transactions and in wireless services and products. The econo mic value of Open Spectrum is probably orders of magnitude greater than the projected $15 billion in receipts from the FCC's broadcast spectrum auctions.
- Topic:
- Economics, Science and Technology, and Communications
- Political Geography:
- United States, Japan, and America
3. The China Model and U.S. Energy Policy
- Author:
- Lee Lane
- Publication Date:
- 09-2012
- Content Type:
- Working Paper
- Institution:
- Hudson Institute
- Abstract:
- Americans are right to be dismayed with U.S. energy policy. For forty years, presidents of both parties have backed a series of fanciful "breakthrough technologies." From synfuels to Solyndra, these schemes have turned out to be costly disappointments and the source of a recurring political drama. After failures become clear, Congress sometimes conducts oversight hearings. But it welcomes each new scheme as a pretext for pork barrel politics. Neither the executive nor the legislature ever learns from past failures.
- Topic:
- Energy Policy and Science and Technology
- Political Geography:
- United States, China, and Germany