Industry Canada, the authority charged with radio spectrum allocation and assignment in Canada, administered a Combinatorial Clock Auction in 2013 whereby a sizable number of spectrum licenses were awarded to a handful of telecommunications operators to provide 4G cellular service throughout the...

Inspired by the Colombian mobile telecommunications market, this paper reviews the process by which a government's spectrum agency decides on the allocation of new spectrum bands to the mobile communications markets, including 4G and mobile broadband. It discusses the elements the spectrum...

Using data provided by Industry Canada this paper seeks to understand what strategic bidding is in the 2014 700-MHz Canadian auction. The auction format is known as Combinatorial Clock. Its design seeks to induce truthful bidding, that is, a bidder is expected to bid in a way that at each round...

This paper employs analytical methods to evaluate the ability of three different auction mechanisms to determine the efficient designation of spectrum between licensed and unlicensed use. The two regimes explored are 'licensed' spectrum, in which a licensee maintains exclusive rights to use the...

The Combinatorial Clock Auction (CCA) consists of two main stages: the Allocation stage and the Assignment stage; in turn, the allocation stage is further divided in two: the Clock Rounds and the Supplementary Round. In 2014 and 2015 Industry Canada administered two auctions on the 700 MHz and...

Radio spectrum is the means by which modern wireless communications are possible. It basically refers to the use of electromagnetic waves to code and transmit information. In recent years there has been an explosion in demand for spectrum, particularly because of impressive progress in digital...

The purpose of this paper is to present a case study of Canada's 700 MHz spectrum auction, which took place at the beginning of 2014. The auction format adopted by the Canadian regulator was the Combinatorial Clock Auction (CCA). In Section 1, we review the band plan for Canada's 700 MHz...