Supercommons: Toward a Unified Theory of Wireless Communication

Werbach, Kevin

doi:10.2139/ssrn.456020

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“…A large part of the spectrum literature is therefore about the feasibility of different types of property rights and the discussion of paths to full ownership (CAVE, DOYLE and WEBB 2007). Interestingly, a competing approach calls for an increase in unlicensed spectrum and therefore much weaker property rights normally associated with commons (WERBACH 2004). The approach of strengthened property rights is based on the exclusion principle and the ability to sell rights to others so that the value of and the benefits from spectrum are maximized.…”

Section: Theoretical and Empirical Literature About Policiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Endgame of Telecommunications Policy? A Survey

Vogelsang

2013

Review of Economics

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Telecommunications policy has come a long way from regulation of vertically integrated monopolies to the current state of competition. As competition becomes selfsustainable, will telecommunications policy in the form of industry-specific regulation go away or, if not, what form will it take? The economics literature suggests that the regulatory efficiency frontier is shifted by new technological and market developments, such as convergence of networks, fixed-mobile substitution (and integration) and next generation access networks. The frontier is also affected by the existing capital stock and other physical and institutional characteristics of a country. The insights from a review of the theoretical and empirical literature are applied to five policy areas. They are: (1) termination monopoly; (2) local bottleneck access; (3) net neutrality; (4) spectrum management; and (5) universal service. While in some of them, deregulation and a move to competition policy will soon be the efficient state of the art, regulation will remain efficient in others for some time. Deregulation will likely become efficient for one-way access and universal service, with the exception of some universal service policies in remote areas and for the poor. Termination will move to bill and keep with a duty to interconnect. In addition, some (more symmetric) regulation should persist for net neutrality in the form of transparency requirements, (quasi-) common carrier obligations and minimum quality standards. Also, spectrum management, while moving towards full-blown ownership rights, will continue to see regulators providing zoning and other services, particularly for unlicensed spectrum. All these assessments are premised on the success of making additional spectrum as the key resource available. They are also premised on the absence of a killer technology like P2P FTTH that potentially dominates all other technologies. What determines the endgame in telecommunications regulation? Although technical and market developments will dominantly shape the regulatory efficiency frontier, institutional and political economy factors have an additional and mostly slowing effect on policy changes. (JEL: L43; L86; L96; L98.

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Section: Theoretical and Empirical Literature About Policiesmentioning

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The Endgame of Telecommunications Policy? A Survey

Vogelsang

2013

Review of Economics

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“…The easement regime offers an important promise to alleviate spectrum congestion in some bands and satisfy un-met demand in others. More importantly still, and as surmised by numerous legal scholars, 'private property' exclusion zones impose a large welfare cost to society by preventing or slowing the development, testing and deployment of cutting-edge new wireless technologies, which require fast and easy access to specific spectrum bands [13], [14], [15]. A case of the 'tragedy of the anti-commons' 7 was also in regulators' minds.…”

Section: Regulating Unlicensed White Space Services After Spectrum Rementioning

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Digital switchover and regulatory design for competing white space usage rights

Freyens

Loney

2011

2011 IEEE International Symposium on Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks (DySPAN)

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“…The most recent, but also the most ambitious, is the supercommons theory laid down by Kevin Werbach [65], in which anyone is allowed to transmit anywhere, anytime, and in any way , moving regulation from the spectrum to the devices. This model focuses on the ine ciency of frequency allocation regulations, and how networks that self allocate frequencies of a commons (e.g.…”

Section: The Open Wireless Network As a Commonsmentioning

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Internet access: Where law, economy, culture and technology meet

Wong¹,

Altman²,

Rojas-Mora³

2011

Computer Networks

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Internet growth has allowed unprecedented widespread access to cultural creation including music and lms, to knowledge, and to a wide range of consumer information. At the same time, it has become a huge source of business opportunities. Along with great bene ts that this access to the Internet provides, the open and free access to the Internet has encountered large opposition based on political, economical and ethical reasons. An ongoing battle over the control on Internet access has been escalating on all these fronts. In this paper we describe rst some of the ideological roots of free access to the Internet along with its main opponents. We then focus on the problem of Internet piracy and analyze the e ciency of e orts to reduce the availability of copyrighted creations that are available for non-authorized free download.

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Supercommons: Toward a Unified Theory of Wireless Communication

Cited by 37 publications

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The Endgame of Telecommunications Policy? A Survey

The Endgame of Telecommunications Policy? A Survey

Digital switchover and regulatory design for competing white space usage rights

Internet access: Where law, economy, culture and technology meet

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