Increasing Spectrum for Broadband: What are the Options?

This paper outlines specific proposals to make more spectrum available from public and private sector sources for wireless broadband under a flexibly licensed, market-based regime. The paper proposes a high-level Government Spectrum Reform Task Force recommend a package of spectrum bands that could be vacated by government users and auctioned by the FCC. The paper also proposes a Government Spectrum Ownership Corporation be created based on the model of the U.S. Government Services Administration (GSA), to provide better incentives for government agencies to economize on spectrum.