Month: May 2013

Setting reserve prices for mobile spectrum in Taiwan

01/05/2013
Project
Client: National Communications Commission Taiwan
Author(s): Phillipa Marks, Yi Shen Chan, Sarongrat Wongsaroj
Spectrum management

This report, for the NCC, recommended reserve prices for the 700 MHz, 900 MHz, 1800 MHz, 2100 MHz and 2600 MHz band auctions in Taiwan. Plum used a combination of international benchmarking analysis, cost reduction modelling and full enterprise value modelling to provide indications of spectrum value. This provided a range of estimates of spectrum[…]

Terrestrial broadcasting use of spectrum – does AIP have a role in promoting efficiency?

01/05/2013
Project
Client: Arqiva
Author(s): Phillipa Marks, Sam Wood
Broadcasting Spectrum management Radio engineering

This report considered Ofcom’s proposals for the potential application of AIP to spectrum utilised for national terrestrial TV broadcasting. In its consultation on spectrum pricing for broadcasting, Ofcom stated that, where there are constraints on spectrum release, it does not expect “…the application of AIP to meet its core objective of securing the optimal use[…]