Practical Steps to Spectrum Markets
Brookings Institution
Friday, November 09, 2001 | 9:30 a.m. – 2:30 p.m.
Wohlstetter Conference Center, twelfth floor, AEI 1150 Seventeenth Street, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20036
About This Event
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.
Agenda
| 8:00 a.m. | Registration | |
| 8:30 a.m. | Welcome: | Robert W. Hahn, AEI-Brookings Joint Center |
| Breakfast Address: | The Honorable Ron Wyden, U.S. Senate | |
| 9:00 a.m. | Session 1: | Enabling Bandwidth Markets |
| Panelists | Thomas W. Hazlett, AEI | |
| Gregory Rosston, Stanford University | ||
| Michelle Farquhar, Hogan & Hartson | ||
| Evan Kwerel, FCC | ||
| John Williams, FCC | ||
| 10:45 a.m. | Session 2: | Unblocking Spectrum Allocation |
| Panelists | Mike Chartier, Intel | |
| Joe Mitola, III, Mitre | ||
| DeWayne Hendricks, Dandin Group | ||
| Giancarlo Ibarguen, Francisco Marroquin University | ||
| 12:15 p.m. | Luncheon Address: | Nancy J. Victory, Assistant Secretary of Commerce Administrator, National Telecommunications and Information Administration |
| 1:30 p.m. | Adjournment: | |
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