As part of a broader set of policy papers on state of US infrastructure and public/private ways to fund infrastructure investments are 2 papers focused on wireless and broadband telecommunications.
Couple of nuggets:
"..the FCC should be reformed to oversee "wireless" spectrum use through an increased emphasis on after-the-fact oversight (i.e., monitoring how the radio spectrum is used in practice) as opposed to its legacy of closely prescribed before-the-fact rules."
"These potential new wireless providers could then compete with existing telephone, cable, and cellular companies and other organizations for the obligation to bring broadband to an unserved community in return for a one-time subsidy. Defining this obligation in a highly flexible form and making it tradable on an open market would minimize the cost of infrastructure deployment and thereby reduce the subsidies needed."
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