IP: A paper submitted to the Spectrum Policy Task Force -- SPECTRUM MANAGEMENT: PROPERTY RIGHTS, MARKETS, AND THE COMMONS

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

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The submission letter is part of the document, but here it is in text:

                        Before the
            FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION
                    Washington, D.C. 20554

In the Matter of                    )
                                )
Issues Related to the Commission's        )        ET Docket No. 02-135
Spectrum Policies                    )

July 18, 2002

To: The Spectrum Policy Task Force

                            COMMENTS OF
            PROFESSORS GERALD R. FAULHABER AND DAVID J. FARBER

Professors Gerald R. Faulhaber and David J. Farber, both of the University
of Pennsylvania, submit the enclosed paper as a comment in response to the
Spectrum Policy Task Force's invitation for recommendations to improve the
Commission's Spectrum policies.*

Professor Faulhaber is Professor of Business and Public Policy at the
Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania; he was Chief Economist at the
FCC from July 1, 2000 to June 30, 2001.  He has studied and written on
telecommunications and Internet issues throughout his academic career.
Professor Farber is Alfred Fitler Moore Professor of Telecommunications
Systems, School of Engineering and Applied Science, University of
Pennsylvania, and former Chief Technologist at the FCC from January, 2000 to
January 2001.  He is a leading figure in research and applications of
networking and the Internet.

As experts in the field of wired and wireless telecommunications, we
recognize that the current method of managing the electromagnetic spectrum
by administrative fiat has reached the end of its useful life.  As the Task
Force recognizes, and we support, reform has become a necessity.  We also
note that while economists have been recommending for years the use of
property rights and markets to allocate spectrum, engineers have more
recently been recommending making spectrum a commons, on the basis of new
technological developments, a very different allocation regime.  We show in
the enclosed paper that these two approaches can be reconciled to achieve
both the benefits of both the market and the new technologies.  We trust
that our ideas may prove useful to the Task Force.


* See Public Notice, "Spectrum Policy Task Force Seeks Public Comment on
Issues Related to Commission's Spectrum Policies," ET Docket 02-135, DA
02-1311 (June 6, 2002)("Spectrum Policy Notice").

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