Spectrum Management

Martin Cave is a regulatory economist who has worked extensively on telecommunications and spectrum issues. He is a visiting professor at Imperial College Business School and an Inquiry Chair at the UK Competition and Markets Authority. Previously he was a professor at Warwick Business School, BP Centennial Professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and a member of Spectrum Advisory Board of the UK regulator Ofcom. Professor William Webb was instrumental in designing Weightless, a new global standard for wireless M2M communications, is CEO of the Weightless SIG, and has seventeen patents pending or granted for the technology. He was a co-founder and CTO of Neul, a Cambridge start-up established to commercialise Weightless technology, was President of the IET during 2015, was a member of Ofcom's Spectrum Advisory Board (OSAB), and is on the Board of TPRC. In 2005, he became one of the youngest ever Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering. He is also a fellow of the IEEE.

• Part I. Introduction: 1. Overview; 2. Technical basics; 3. Economic basics; Part II. Markets: 4. Auctions; 5. Trading; 6. Pricing; Part III. Sharing: 7. Sharing modes and the commons; 8. Dynamic spectrum access; Part IV. Topics: 9. The UHF band; 10. Public sector; 11. Economic value of spectrum; 12. The future.

'This is an excellent book, and the nearest approximation to a page-turner any work on spectrum management could hope to be.' Paul Paterson, Chief Economist, Department of Communications, Australian Government