"Evaluates two options for spectrum governance--a tradable license approach and a commons approach--in terms of interference, investment in innovation, monopoly power, diversity, rural service, and vested interests versus adaptability" - Provided by publisher.

"Evaluates two options for spectrum governance--a tradable license approach and a commons approach--in terms of interference, investment in innovation, monopoly power, diversity, rural service, and vested interests versus adaptability"--Provided by publisher

We focus on the relative economic benefits of licensed versus unlicensed access to the white space, in the belief that spectrum allocation is, ultimately, an economic policy choice. We ignore the technical question of whether an unlicensed approach would create harmful interference, on the...