Merrill Lynch report in Telecom and Cable Weekly that: “Industry Canada is about to kick off a public proceeding on this issue [spectrum fees] in the coming weeks. They have just received a report from Plum Consulting, recognized UK-based experts on spectrum valuation, which estimates a value on the 170MHz of cellular/PCS spectrum in question.[…]
This paper discusses the convergence being driven by digital content, IP technology and a move from hardware to software-based systems. Convergence can be thought of as occurring in three phases. In the first phase of convergence legacy market players have entered one another’s traditional markets and offered a range of services and service bundles to[…]
This study, for Industry Canada, valued cellular and PCS spectrum licences which covered the 824-849/869-894 MHz and 1850-1910/1930-1990 MHz frequency ranges in Canada. This was done with a view to determining an appropriate annual fee for the next 10 year term of the licences. Plum examined auction results in Canada and elsewhere for spectrum used[…]
This study, for Ofcom, assessed the future of advertising technology over the next 10 years. The advertising market is undergoing rapid technology-driven change, impacting on the communications sectors that Ofcom regulates. This change has been led by digitisation of content and innovation in advertising technologies and applications on the internet (behavioural targeting, personalisation, new ad[…]
Phillipa Marks and Ken Pearson of Plum held a seminar with Olswang on spectrum policy
Phillipa Marks participated in a panel on “Spectrum 2.0 — What’s really happening?” at the eComm conference, “What’s next in telecom, mobile and internet communications” in Amsterdam. Visit related web site
Plum prepared a paper reviewing Ofcom’s proposals for regulating a PMSE band manager.
Phillipa Marks spoke on spectrum and the economics of universal broadband access at a joint event between the Digital Communications Knowledge Transfer Network & Cambridge Wireless Future Wide Area Wireless SIG workshop on “Spectrum and the New Economy”.
Plum supported the ECO impact assessment workshop with this case study impact assessment of receiver parameters for devices operating in the 863 – 870 MHz band. Plum also prepared a framework paper and ran a workshop on impact assessment for ECO members.
Phillipa Marks spoke at the ASEAN-EU spectrum workshop in Thailand on “EU and ASEAN: A comparison of regional boundaries governing spectrum policy approaches”.