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Agenda Practical Steps to Spectrum Markets
November 9, 2001
8:30 a.m.--1:30 p.m.
Wohlstetter Conference Center, Twelfth Floor, AEI
1150 Seventeenth St., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036
Why is it that wireline bandwidth is traded as a commodity while federal regulation effectively blocks the formation of similar markets for wireless? Given the key role of wireless technologies in today’s telecommunications sector, the Joint Center will convene a group of experts to discuss this pertinent policy question. Panelists will debate reforms such as liberalization of wireless licenses issued by the FCC, streamlining methods for interference adjudication, and other practical steps to enable market allocation of radio spectrum.
| 8:00 |
Registration |
| 8:30 |
Welcome:
Morning Address: |
Robert W. Hahn, Joint Center
The Honorable Ron Wyden, U.S. Senate |
| 9:00 |
Session 1:
Enabling Bandwidth Markets: |
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Thomas W. Hazlett, AEI and Joint Center
Allocation and Licensing
Gregory L. Rosston, Stanford University
Extending Overlay Rights
Michele C. Farquhar and Ari Q. Fitzgerald, Hogan & Hartson
Legal Issues Governing Spectrum Rights Trading
Evan Kwerel and John Williams, FCC
A Proposal for a Rapid Transition to Market
Allocation of Radio Spectrum |
| 10:30 |
Break |
| 10:45 |
Session 2:
Unblocking Spectrum Allocation: |
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Mike Chartier, Intel
Property Rights to Unlicensed Spectrum
Chris Nissen, MITRE Corporation
Rules for Smart Radios
Dewayne Hendricks, Dandin Group
Wireless Without Spectrum Allocation
Giancarlo Ibarguen, Francisco Marroquin University
Defining Spectrum Rights in Guatemala |
| 12:15 |
Luncheon Address:
Nancy J. Victory, Assistant Secretary of Commerce
Administrator, National Telecommunications
and Information Administration |
| 1:30 |
Adjournment | |
