Our digital world is increasingly mobile. All mobile communication rests upon access to one invisible, essential element: the radio spectrum. In Frequencies, Gregory Taylor and Catherine Middleton bring together diverse national perspectives to explore the current and future state of spectrum governance worldwide. Spectrum is a foundational component of our contemporary communication infrastructure. The stakes are massive: mobile network operators have invested billions via national spectrum auctions to claim exclusive use of prime spectrum bands. Despite this windfall for national governments, many people around the globe remain disconnected from mobile service, yet international policy comparisons that can help us understand these disparities and differences are rare. Frequencies offers illuminating case studies from around the world, including Finland, Mexico, New Zealand, India, and Canada, as well as forward-thinking approaches to our use of radio frequencies that encourage greater public benefit and technological advancement. The contributors to Frequencies represent a wide array of disciplinary backgrounds, united by the common goal of maximizing the value and access to the public good that is the radio spectrum. Spectrum policy affects everyone, whether listening to the radio, making an emergency phone call, or scrolling through social media updates. Frequencies seeks to broaden the discussion about our management of this primary resource necessary for how the world shares information.--$cProvided by publisher.
Authors
- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Control Number Identifier
- CaOOCEL
- Date published
- 2020.
- Description conventions
- rda
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 384
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 23
- Distributor
- Canadian Electronic Library (Firm),
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- ISBN
- 9780228003120 0228001781
- LCCN
- HE7645
- LCCN Item number
- F74 2020eb
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- CaBNVSL
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- NLC
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (xvii, 318 pages)
- Published in
- Ottawa, Ontario
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- CaOOCEL
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- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
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- (CaBNVSL)kck00240996 (OCoLC)1135489787 (CaOOCEL)450163
- System Details Note
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
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- YDX
Table of Contents
- Cover 1
- Copyright 5
- Contents 6
- Tables and Figures 8
- Foreword 10
- Acknowledgments 15
- Abbreviations 16
- Introduction 22
- 1 Radio Spectrum as Indigenous Space: Property Rights and Traditional Knowledge in New Zealand’s Spectrum 38
- 2 Finland: Surfing the Mobile Wave against the Tide of EU Spectrum Policy Consensus 65
- 3 Spectrum Policy across Africa 87
- 4 Wireless Carriers Competing? Canadian Mobile Policy, 2006–17 109
- 5 The Case of the Wholesale Mobile Network in Mexico: Red Compartida 135
- 6 The Growth of Broadband Mobile Communications in India: Trends, Policy Issues, and Challenges 157
- 7 Bridging the Urban–Rural Digital Divide: The Case of Remote Rural Broadband Systems in Canada 181
- 8 Spectrum Sharing 206
- 9 Polycentric Governance for Spectrum Sharing 226
- 10 Open Access Markets for Capacity and the Inseparability of Spectrum and Infrastructure 256
- 11 How Disruptive Is 5G? 278
- Conclusion Frequencies: International Spectrum Policy 305
- Contributors 314
- Index 318
