Property Rights to Radio Spectrum in Guatemala and El Salvador: An Experiment in Liberalization

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas W. Hazlett ◽  
Giancarlo Ibarguen ◽  
Wayne A. Leighton
Keyword(s):  
Property Rights ◽  
El Salvador ◽  
Radio Spectrum

Spectrum anarchy: why self-governance of the radio spectrum works better than we think

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (6) ◽  
pp. 863-882 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pedro Bustamante ◽  
Marcela Gomez ◽  
Ilia Murtazashvili ◽  
Martin Weiss
Keyword(s):  
Property Rights ◽  
Spectrum Sharing ◽  
Private Property ◽  
Radio Spectrum ◽  
Federal Communications Commission ◽  
Agent Based ◽  
Private Property Rights ◽  
The Usa ◽  
The Commons ◽  
Enforcement Mechanisms

AbstractThe exploitation of radio-electric spectrum bands for wireless transmission purposes has some features of the commons: it is subject to congestion and conflict without rules governing its use. The Coasean approach is to assign private property rights to overcome the tragedy of the spectrum commons. The process of assigning these rights is still centralized, with governments assigning property rights through agencies such as the Federal Communications Commission and National Telecommunications and Information Administration in the USA. We consider the possibility of self-governance of the spectrum. We use insights from the study of common pool resources governance to analyze the emergence of property rights to spectrum in a ‘government-less’ environment in which norms, rules, and enforcement mechanisms are solely the product of the repeated interactions among participants in the network. Our case study considers the spectrum-sharing arrangement in the 1,695–1,710 MHz band. Using agent-based modeling (ABM), we show that self-governance of the spectrum can work and under what conditions it is likely to improve the efficiency of the allocation of property rights.

Administrative Creation of Property Rights to Radio Spectrum

1998 ◽  
Vol 41 (S2) ◽  
pp. 581-609 ◽  
Author(s):  
Howard A. Shelanski ◽  
Peter W. Huber
Keyword(s):  
Property Rights ◽  
Radio Spectrum

Two perspectives on trading in radio spectrum usage rights: Coase and Commons compared

2014 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 437-457 ◽  
Author(s):  
WOLTER LEMSTRA ◽  
JOHN GROENEWEGEN ◽  
PIET DE VRIES ◽  
RAJEN AKALU
Keyword(s):  
Property Rights ◽  
Private Property ◽  
Radio Spectrum ◽  
Secondary Market ◽  
Policy Recommendations ◽  
Private Property Rights ◽  
Alternative Perspective ◽  
The World ◽  
Radio Frequency Spectrum ◽  
The Uk

AbstractIn this contribution, we address the introduction of private property rights and market trades in the use of the radio frequency spectrum. We discuss the UK case being inspired by the ideas of Coase. We discuss how an appropriate design of property rights and a secondary market would look like and how the developments after the introduction of property rights could be interpreted. Subsequently we present the alternative perspective of Commons to illuminate the implications of a Coasean perspective. It is shown how Coase's focus is on efficiency, whereas in the world of Commons, the societal value is central. We discuss how the two perspectives can contribute to the understanding of the governance of the radio spectrum and conclude with policy recommendations.

From Free Privilege to Regulation: Wireless Firms and the Competition for Spectrum Rights before World War I

2002 ◽  
Vol 76 (4) ◽  
pp. 659-703 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Kruse
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
World War I ◽  
Property Rights ◽  
Mass Communication ◽  
The United States ◽  
Radio Spectrum ◽  
World War ◽  
Radio Broadcasting ◽  
Unique System ◽  
Commercial Radio

The activities of commercial wireless companies in the United States before World War I were critical forerunners of the unique system of property rights in the radio spectrum that developed in the United States between 1899 and 1927. These activities formed the basis for commercial claims to property rights in the spectrum during the 1920s, when radio broadcasting developed. The early wireless companies provided the material, institutional, and ideological foundations for commercial rights in the spectrum that are still a striking part of mass communication in the United States today. The De Forest/United Wireless succession of companies, although ultimately business failures, nonetheless laid the groundwork for commercial radio in the United States. Most historians of radio have overlooked the importance of the pre–World War I period, and all have neglected the contribution of the De Forest/United Wireless companies.

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