The relentless change of the communications industry generates a long slate of new policy ideas. This paper reports on a cross section of these proposals that were introduced in meetings held under the auspices of the Silicon Flatirons Center’s New Models of Governance project; introduces a...

The impact of a new radio service allocation on incumbents is traditionally estimated using deterministic, single-value calculations, often of the worst-case. This is no longer tenable given increasing demand for spectrum rights, since it leads to over-conservative allocations that limit the...

This paper estimates the economic value of contracting protection or exclusion zones for three polar weather satellite earth stations in the 1695 MHz–1710 MHz band located in Suitland, MD; Miami, FL; and San Francisco, CA. In 2010 President Obama directed the Secretary of Commerce and the...

More and more systems need to be squeezed together in frequency, space and time in order to satisfy the growth in demand for radio services. However, greater proximity increases the risk of service breakdowns due to harmful interference, caused both by poor interference tolerance in receivers...