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Spectrum use and carrier costs: a critical trade-off

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  • Hills, Alex
  • Yao Yeh, Hung

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In making spectrum allocation and assignment decisions, national officials may wish to consider how these decisions will affect the costs experienced by licensees and the prices ultimately paid by customers. With low tier wireless systems as an illustration, this paper uses an engineering-economic model to describe the relationship between the amount of spectrum allocated and the per subscriber investment required of carriers/licensees. This relationship is explored under a variety of assumptions relating to service provision. The paper concludes with the public policy implications of the work and recommendations for policymakers and regulators involved with spectrum allocation. The analysis presented here seems particularly appropriate for extending service to unserved areas.

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  • Hills, Alex & Yao Yeh, Hung, 1999. "Spectrum use and carrier costs: a critical trade-off," Telecommunications Policy, Elsevier, vol. 23(7-8), pages 569-584, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:telpol:v:23:y:1999:i:7-8:p:569-584
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    1. Rana, Md Sohel & Prasad, Rohit & Yoon, Hyenyoung & Hwang, Junseok, 2020. "Opportunity cost of spectrum for mobile communications: Evaluation of spectrum prices in Bangladesh," Telecommunications Policy, Elsevier, vol. 44(3).

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