Webinar: The Broadcast Incentive Auction

The Broadcast Incentive Auction: Balancing Competing Goals in the Spectrum Incentive Auction

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is developing service and auction rules to transition broadcast spectrum to mobile use through a novel incentive auction. The auction must compensate television broadcasters at a level that will encourage them to relinquish substantial amounts of spectrum while ensuring enough auction revenue remains to fund the construction of a nationwide interoperable public safety network. The challenges presented by these competing goals will impact the implementation of service rules for the band and the auction design.

What You Will Hear:

Join this webinar to hear panelists discuss:

• The policy implications of congressional requirements for the auction.

• The technical and interference issues involved.

• The economic differences between past FCC auctions and the upcoming incentive auction.

Speakers:

This webinar reunites former FCC chiefs who were responsible for the service and auction rules used in the 2008 auction of spectrum in the 700 MHz band.

• Fred Campbell, former Chief of the Wireless Telecommunications Bureau, who managed the development of the commercial service rules for the 700 MHz band.

• Leslie Marx, the FCC’s former Chief Economist who developed the combinatorial and anonymous bidding systems employed in the 700 MHz auction.

• Tom Dombrowsky, engineer and former Chief in the Commercial Wireless Division of the FCC’s Wireless Telecommunications Bureau.

DATE: Thursday, April 25, 2013

TIME: 2:00 – 3:00 PM (EDT)

COST: Complimentary, but advanced registration is required.

RSVP: Register here

More Info:

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