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		<title>Rethinking the White Spaces decision</title>
		<link>http://kennethrcarter.com/CoolStuff/2010/09/rethinking-the-white-spaces-decision/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Sep 2010 18:33:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kenneth Carter</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[TV White Spaces]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Part 15]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the FCC’s monthly agenda meeting it unanimously adopted its Second Memorandum Opinion and Order which will enable unlicensed operation in the TV White Spaces.  The Chairman and Commissioners almost universally stated that the Order would unleash a wave of innovation, broadband access, “Wi-Fi on steroids,” and other Really Cool Stuff What was universally not said was that broadcast TV and wireless microphones are not the future.  Granted, regulators want to provide regulatory certainty and are loathe to picking winners and losers; however, this glaring absence begs the question: if all of the innovation, job growth, and economic development will come from the unlicensed use of the White Spaces, why aren’t we protecting those uses?]]></description>
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		<title>Spectrum Auctions in Japan?!</title>
		<link>http://kennethrcarter.com/CoolStuff/2010/09/spectrum-auctions-in-japan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Sep 2010 19:48:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kenneth Carter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Wireless Communications]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Japan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[next generation spectrum policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Policy Development]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Japanese wireless market is well developed, with at least 5 competitors offering some of the lowest priced, highest speed, and most advanced networks of anywhere in the world. Yet, according modern economic theory, this should not be. The Japanese government has never held an auction to assign spectrum licenses. Economic theory suggests that auctions are more efficient assigning spectrum rights to their highest monetary value use than other means such as comparative hearings (currently used in Japan) or lotteries. That may all, change as the government of Japan is considering how it might employ spectrum auctions. The Cabinet might be directing the Ministry of Information and Communications to review how market forces can be employed to rapidly and efficiently reassign radio usage rights. According to my vague understanding of what is suggested, the MIC will pursue a limited use of auctions to reassign spectrum licenses. Auction prices will be limited to the costs of relocating the existing users from the band. The MIC will then auction participant’s bids as part of its analysis in some sort of comparative hearing. License winners will have to pay their bid eventually. I am not sure whether auctions will make the Japanese wireless market more advanced, or whether they will simply screw things up. I will keep you posted.]]></description>
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		<title>The New Dutch Auction</title>
		<link>http://kennethrcarter.com/CoolStuff/2010/05/the-new-dutch-auction/</link>
		<comments>http://kennethrcarter.com/CoolStuff/2010/05/the-new-dutch-auction/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 May 2010 19:23:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kenneth Carter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cool Stuff]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Optimal Regulation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wireless Communications]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Policy Development]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A week ago, the Dutch telecommunications regulator Agentschap Telecom completed a spectrum auction for licenses in the 2.6 GHz band.  Five bidders spent just over €2.6 million to acquire 130 MHz of the 190 MHz in the band, but they did so in an unusual way.  Agentschap’s auction had two parts.  In the first part, bidders vied for a certain amount of spectrum.  In the second round, the bidders competed for specific 5 MHz blocks, with the option of single 5 MHz blocks of unpaired (TDD) spectrum or 2 x 5 MHz blocks of paired (FDD) spectrum.  This determined the pairing the band.  No FDD spectrum was acquired.

In this way, the auction determined whether the spectrum would be used for cellular type uses (FDD) or for WiMax-type uses (TDD). ]]></description>
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		<title>The Spoon</title>
		<link>http://kennethrcarter.com/CoolStuff/2010/05/the-spoon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 May 2010 19:42:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kenneth Carter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Optimal Regulation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wireless Communications]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FCC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Optimal level of regulation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Part 15]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Policy Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spectrum]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Treating radio operations as spectrum or airwaves or property is a false paradigm.  Electromagnetic energy behaves simultaneously like a wave and like a particle, carried by photons.  So, while we are regulating the airwaves, who is regulating the photons?  I raise this issue now because just last week the FCC established the Spectrum Task Force.  Honestly, I am not exactly sure what implications for radio policy of considering the dually of electromagnetic radiation as both a wave and a particle might be; however, going forward perhaps the STF should undertake critical rethinking of this crucial policy area from the basics up.]]></description>
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		<title>Keeping up with the Jitsuzumis</title>
		<link>http://kennethrcarter.com/CoolStuff/2010/04/keeping-up-with-the-jitsuzumis/</link>
		<comments>http://kennethrcarter.com/CoolStuff/2010/04/keeping-up-with-the-jitsuzumis/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Apr 2010 21:15:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kenneth Carter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Broadband]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Optimal Regulation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FCC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fiber to the House]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Japan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[National Broadband Plan]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first goal of the FCC’s recent National Broadband Plan is to ensure at least 100 million US homes have access to Internet connections with download speeds of at least 100 Mbps by the end of the decade (the year 2020).  This goal strikes me as not being a terribly ambitious.  I can’t help feeling that the FCC is trying to catch the US up in ten years to where Japan is now.  From what I have been reading on the listservs, given current pace of deployment of FiOS and DOCSIS 3.0, the market will accomplish this goal on its own.  This fact begs the question what is need for governmental intervention.  Instead, the FCC should propose a more ambitious goal (one that might have a higher risk of failure) and devise a road map necessary for achieving that goal.  Perhaps this will come out in follow on work to National Broadband Plan.]]></description>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s Inaugural Address and the Optimal Government</title>
		<link>http://kennethrcarter.com/CoolStuff/2009/01/obamas-inaugural-address-and-the-optimal-government/</link>
		<comments>http://kennethrcarter.com/CoolStuff/2009/01/obamas-inaugural-address-and-the-optimal-government/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jan 2009 13:46:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kenneth Carter</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Optimal level of regulation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[If Mr. Obama truly adopts this approach to government, then it represents a major step forward for the United States and the welfare of its people.  This efficiency frontier for government is something I have written about before in Cool Stuff.  Defining the contours of this efficiency frontier is the next generation of policy research and debate.]]></description>
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		<title>Next Generation Spectrum Policy</title>
		<link>http://kennethrcarter.com/CoolStuff/2008/03/next-generation-spectrum-policy/</link>
		<comments>http://kennethrcarter.com/CoolStuff/2008/03/next-generation-spectrum-policy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2008 23:16:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kenneth Carter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Broadband]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Network Neutrality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[TV White Spaces]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wireless Communications]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Optimal level of regulation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Part 15]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Policy Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[RCS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[spectrum policy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I am very pleased to announce that the FCC has just published a suite of papers which I worked on while I was there. This work sought to tackle some of the intractable problems facing spectrum policy. For nearly a century, spectrum policy has focused on &#8220;scarcity&#8221; and resolving &#8220;harmful interference&#8221;. This was largely due [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Challenge to the Next FCC Chairman: Make the US Last in Broadband Adoption</title>
		<link>http://kennethrcarter.com/CoolStuff/2008/02/a-challenge-to-the-next-fcc-chairman-make-the-us-last-in-broadband-adoption/</link>
		<comments>http://kennethrcarter.com/CoolStuff/2008/02/a-challenge-to-the-next-fcc-chairman-make-the-us-last-in-broadband-adoption/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2008 21:09:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kenneth Carter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Broadband]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FCC]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[No matter what the outcome in November&#8217;s presidential election, about a year from now, the FCC will be anticipating the arrival of a new Chairman.  I present the following challenge to the next Chairman, whoever he/she may be: make the US last in the world rankings of per capita broadband adoption.  What?!  Stay with me [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Irish International Advisory Forum on Broadband</title>
		<link>http://kennethrcarter.com/CoolStuff/2008/02/irish-international-advisory-forum-on-broadband/</link>
		<comments>http://kennethrcarter.com/CoolStuff/2008/02/irish-international-advisory-forum-on-broadband/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2008 22:21:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kenneth Carter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Broadband]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Optimal level of regulation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Policy Development]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I am very please to announce that I have been appointed to an International Advisory Forum on Next Generation Broadband Networks.  Minister Eamon Ryan of the Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources established this Advisory Forum of senior telecoms experts and CEOs from around the world in order to advise him on the optimum [...]]]></description>
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