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Technology Policy Institute Says Market-Based Regulation Key to Spectrum Policy

Market-based regulation is important to spectrum policy, said Thomas Lenard, senior fellow at the Technology Policy Institute, in response to an FCC notice seeking comment on various Technological Advisory Council spectrum policy recommendations. Comments were due Wednesday. “While mitigating interference…

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and its effects in real time is a technological issue, truly dealing with the problem in a longer-term, more robust way requires thinking about it as an economics and incentives problem,” Lenard commented in docket 17-340. “We would expect a flexible, market-based system to provide the best incentives to address interference problems in a cost-effective manner and to promote efficient use of the spectrum.” The Office of Engineering and Technology sought comment in December (see 1712040034).