SD county antenna use permit system invalidated by 9th Circuit.
The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld a district court ruling that strikes down San Diego County's ordinance regulating the location and appearance of cell phone antennas and other wireless facilities. The Ninth Circuit found that the county's wireless telecommunications facilities zoning ordinance violated the...

Regulatory and policy implications of emerging technologies to spectrum management.
Abstract: This paper provides an overview of the policy implications of technological developments, and how these technologies can accommodate an increased level of market competition. It is based on the work carried out in the SPORT VIEWS (Spectrum Policies and Radio Technologies Viable In Emerging Wireless Societies) research project...

The role of licence-exemption in spectrum reform (*).
Abstract: Spectrum reform initiatives in the US and Europe have identified a need to move away from the traditional "command and control" approach towards flexible and tradable licences and licence-exemption. Current regulatory initiatives are tending to focus on the flexible licensing route, and there is a risk that licence-exemption...

Spectrum allocation, spectrum commons and public goods: the role of the market.
Abstract: The reallocation of radio spectrum to valuable new and emerging technologies and services is essential to achieving the next wave of productivity and consumer benefits driven by ICT. Currently spectrum is not allocated to the most valuable uses, particularly the large amount of spectrum held for government use,...

Alternative wireless technologies: status, trends and policy implications for Europe (*).
Abstract: Besides 3G, a number of alternative wireless technologies (AWTs) have emerged. Such AWTs create new growth opportunities, but may also constitute a disruptive threat to existing networks and their supporting communities. The objectives of this paper are firstly to map AWTs' deployment and current trends, drivers and bottlenecks...

Spectrum management and broadcasting: current issues.
Abstract: Broadcasting policy has traditionally been supported by a 'command-and-control' system of assigning frequencies for terrestrial transmission, but this link is being eroded by the emergence of other technologies--cable, satellite, IPTV, mobile broadcasting--and by the emergence of multi-channel television, which is facilitated by digital terrestrial television. The switch off...

Spectrum policy: what next? A foreword.
Two significant processes are underway in the radio spectrum policy domain. In the Spectrum Sections of its "Proposed Changes" to the European Union Regulatory Framework for Electronic Communications Networks and Services, aiming at the Fall 2007, the European Commission exposes a set of forward-looking spectrum policy principles, emphasising the...

Broadband wireless access: potential for mobile WiMAx and alternative BWA technologies (*).
This report focuses on the debate over the place of fixed and mobile WiMAx, Flash-OFDM, iBurst and traditional 3G technologies and their offspring. Operators are facing widespread adoption of wireless internet by consumers and have to make difficult decisions regarding their wireless broadband strategy. 3G and BWA technologies are...

France Telecom Orange IPO Will Offer Discounts.
LONDON, ENGLAND, 2001 JAN 22 (NB) -- By Steve Gold, Newsbytes. In the face of less then positive editorials in the UK media in the past few weeks, France Telecom is taking no chances with its planned IPO for its Orange wireless operation. Overnight reports said that...

Is federal preemption efficient in cellular phone regulation?
Increased regulation of wireless telephone service is being proposed by both federal and state policy makers, raising the question of optimal jurisdiction. The case for decentralization (state rules) is strongest when the economic activity being regulated is localized and market spillovers are relatively small. Alternatively, the case for uniformity...