Plum worked with the Shareholder Executive (BIS) to develop a view of commercial demand for public sector spectrum. Spectrum is a valuable input to the production of numerous services with social and economic value. The 2005 Cave Audit found that there was considerable potential to reallocate spectrum from public sector use to commercial use in[…]
There have been moves towards greater reliance on market mechanisms for spectrum management – auctions, trading, private band management and leasing – in North America, the EU and a number of other countries. Alongside these developments, regulators have applied administratively determined spectrum prices with the aims of recovering administrative costs and promoting spectrum efficiency through[…]
This Study was funded by the World Bank and was intended to provide further assistance to the Samoan regulator in developing their radio spectrum regulatory framework and developing a road map and commenting on existing documents that had been developed. Our part of the study was concerned with the radio spectrum and was to provide[…]
This project, for the ACMA, provided advice on administrative pricing for spectrum based on opportunity cost. Specifically, Plum advised on the appropriate level of opportunity cost pricing in the 400 MHz band across geographic areas with varying degrees of congestion, and on approaches to implementing spectrum pricing. The 400 MHz band (380-430MHz and 450-520 MHz)[…]
This study advised on the conditions required to foster successful private band management in the Australian spectrum market. To this end Plum researched band management arrangements in the Canada, New Zealand, the UK and the US and considered the feasibility of these arrangements in Australia, given the current legal and regulatory arrangements for spectrum management.[…]
This study attempts to identify frequency bands in which there might be an opportunity to change the current use to a higher value alternative use, in order to increase economic welfare over the next 10-15 years. The scope for making such changes could be limited by legal impediments or interference considerations and could involve moving[…]
Plum provided the lead economics input and Aegis provided the lead technical input to a report assessing issues concerning the management and use of spectrum by the public sector in Europe and developing policy options for addressing these issues. The study involved two public workshops and extensive consultation with public sector spectrum users.
The work involved understanding the type of communications that would be needed in support of effective Smart Grids and then identifying potential spectrum, on a European basis, that could meet such requirements. Historically there was a limited number of power stations and the generated power was distributed, on demand, through the network to the end[…]
The study examined the state of art in wireless power transmission, transfer of electrical power, as seen from the perspective of the protection of radio communications services for Ofcom. It considered the scientific background behind the different proposals, the technological developments, possibilities and limitations, and examined the consumer and economic aspects. Particular attention was given to[…]
The study sought to quantify the relative and absolute spectrum efficiency of digital and analogue wireless microphones. It was required in the context of the general background of reduced availability of UHF spectrum for PMSE use, and the specific requirement to ensure adequate spectrum resources for the London Olympics in 2012. The study considered examples[…]