The Federal Communications Commission

Marketing Perspectives on Federal Communications Commission Policies

The author briefly critiques Federal Communications Commission policies and legislative actions as reported by Sappington and Stockdale (2003) and then provides some insights from a marketing science perspective. The author questions whether competition created through regulation produces the same benefits as natural competition and argues that when natural competition fails to produce desired ...

Comments to the Federal Communications Commission Regarding Broadband Industry Practices

Theory, Experiment and the Federal Communications Commission Spectrum Auctions

The Federal Communications Commission uses an ascending bid auction called the Simultaneous Multi-round Auction (SMA) to assign spectrum for personal communication service licenses. Congress recently mandated that the SMA be evaluated to determine if it could be modified to allow “combinatorial” bids for packages of licenses. We review the theoretical background and prior experimental evidence ...

Federal Communications Commission Office of Engineering and Technology

The spectrum between 30 GHz and 300 GHz is referred to as the millimeter wave band because the wavelengths for these frequencies are about one to ten millimeters. Millimeter wave propagation has its own peculiarities. This paper reviews the characteristics of millimeter wave propagation, including free space propagation and the effects of various physical factors on propagation. It was created ...

Federal Communications Commission Office of Engineering and Technology

The spectrum between 30 GHz and 300 GHz is referred to as the millimeter wave band because the wavelengths for these frequencies are about one to ten millimeters. Millimeter wave propagation has its own peculiarities. This paper reviews the characteristics of millimeter wave propagation, including free space propagation and the effects of various physical factors on propagation. It was created ...