2013/07/21 by Vijay Subramanian, Vijay G. Subramanian, Subramanian, Vijay G. +4
Business, Management and Accounting · Computer Science · Economics, Econometrics and Finance · Engineering · #Computer Science and Game Theory (cs.GT) #Digital Platforms and Economics #FOS: Computer and information sciences #ICT Impact and Policies #Merger and Competition Analysis #Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI) #cs.GT #cs.NI
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1307.5541
15 pages, 5 figures
arxiv created 2013/07/21 · openalex publication_date 2013/07/21 · arxiv updated 2013/07/23 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Allocation of spectrum is an important policy issue and decisions taken have ramifications for future growth of wireless communications and achieving universal connectivity. In this paper, on a common footing we compare the social welfare obtained from the allocation of new spectrum under different alternatives: to licensed providers in monopolistic, oligopolistic and perfectly competitive settings, and for unlicensed access. For this purpose we use mathematical models of competition in congestible resources. Initially we assume that any new bandwidth is available for free, but we also generalize our results to include investment decisions when prices are charged for bandwidth acquisition.