Remembering Clay T. Whitehead
Consensus FCC Reforms and the Communications Agenda for the Next 
Administration
A mini-conference on Tuesday, September 16, 2008, at 8:30 a.m., with former Federal Communications Commission Chairmen William Kennard and Michael Powell, plus former top FCC officials, to discuss a range of reforms that may attract bi-partisan consensus. The discussion, which takes place at the National Press Club, will include both procedural and substantive policy changes at the agency.
The Gore Commission, 10 Years Later: The Public Interest Obligations of Digital TV Broadcasters in Perfect Hindsight
A mini-conference on Friday, October 3, 2008, at 8:30 a.m., with three experts intimately familiar with the December 1998 report of the Advisory Committee on Public Interest Obligations of Digital Television Broadcasters, commonly referred to as the “Gore Commission.” This report recommended a minimum standard of public interest requirements set by the Federal Communications Commission, including five minutes airtime per night for "candidate-centered discourse in the 30 days before an election" -- which would be set to commence this election cycle on Sunday, October 5, 2008.
See other upcoming events.
A Debate over Municipal Broadband
Prof. Hazlett interviewed on the Kojo Nnamdi Show, July 15, 2008, "The Future of Municipal Broadband," WAMU 88.5 FM, Washington D.C. [MP3 files]
A Debate over Spectrum policy in the George Mason Law Review
Professors Philip J. Weiser and Dale Hatfield of the University of Colorado debate Thomas W. Hazlett about spectrum property rights in the most recent issues of the George Mason Law Review . Read the papers here.
Perhaps of related interest
Babette Boliek, Net Neutrality Regulation in the Mobile Telecommunications Market: A Cautionary Tale from the Era of Price Regulation (to be presented at the September 2008 Conference on Empirical Legal Studies, Cornell Law School, Ithaca, N.Y., May 2008).
Thomas W. Hazlett, Optimal Abolition of FCC Spectrum Allocation (PDF), 22 Journal of Economic Perspectives 103 (Vol. 22, No. 1, Winter 2008).
Martin Cooper, Personal Communications and Spectrum Policy For the 21st Century,
Telecommunications Policy, Vol. 31, Issues 10-11 (Nov.-Dec. 2007).
David Porter & Vernon Smith FCC License Experiment Design: A 12-Year Experiment, Journal of Law, Economics and Policy (Vol. 3:1, 2006).
Recent Events
Unleashing Unlicensed: How Wi-Fi Got Its Regulatory Groove
An Information Economy Project Conference: THE GENESIS OF UNLICENSED WIRELESS: How Spread Spectrum Devices Won Access to License-Exempt Bandwidth (April 4, 2008).
Andrew Odlyzko Discusses 'Technology Manias' and Bubble 2.0
Big Ideas About Information Lecture Series: "Technology Manias: Comparing the 1999 Internet Bubble with the 1840s Railroad Mania" (March 18, 2008).
