Plum carried out an impact assessment on the consequences of current spectrum assignment policy in India. It concluded that India was generating substantial economic losses through a policy of fragmented assignment of spectrum to competing operators.
Plum provided critical review of a paper by Spectrum Strategy for Ofcom on the Economics of Audiovisual and Interactive Services. Plum’s report was submitted to the Competition Commission investigation of the merger between Arqiva and National Grid Wireless.
This paper, published in the Communications and Strategies journal, discusses the reallocation of radio spectrum to valuable new and emerging technologies and services. This is essential to achieving the next wave of productivity and consumer benefits driven by ICT. Currently spectrum is not allocated to the most valuable uses, particularly the large amount of spectrum[…]
The study examined the demand for 3.5GHz spectrum for Wireless Broadband Access (WBA) services and the potential impact on the existing Fixed Satellite Services (FSS) users of the spectrum in Singapore. The work included analysis of interference between WBA and FSS together with potential requirements for additional filtering in the satellite receivers and also guard[…]