Flexible spectrum management for mobile broadband services: How does it vary across advanced and emerging markets?

Telecommunications Policy

Volumn 37, Issue 2-3, 2013, Pages 178-191

  Sridhar, Varadharajan ^a   Casey, Thomas ^b   Hämmäinen, Heikki ^b  

^a Sasken Communication Technologies Ltd   (India)

^b AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Cognitive radios; Economies of scale; Inefficient spectrum allocation; Multi SIMs; Secondary spectrum market; Spectrum sharing; Spectrum trading; System dynamics

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIES OF SCALE; SECONDARY SPECTRUMS; SPECTRUM ALLOCATION; SPECTRUM SHARING; SPECTRUM TRADING; SYSTEM DYNAMICS;

COGNITIVE RADIO; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; TELECOMMUNICATION;

COMMERCE;

EID: 84875959258     PISSN: 03085961     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.telpol.2012.07.008     Document Type: Article

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