Just as the beginning of the 20th century saw a rush for land, the beginning of the 21st is seeing a rush for another valuable and limited physical resource, radio electric spectrum. Like real estate, radio spectrum can benefit from some of the same governing principles of planned usage.
In this paper, Thomas Spackman, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of BorderCOMM L.P. and it's operating subsidiaries including XC Networks, looks at why privatization through sale of these spectra leads to their most efficient use. The paper examines the concept of "zoning" for the spectrum and briefly compares the regulation of spectrum by the federal governments of The United States and Mexico and find real world lessons from these markets.
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