| NOTAS: | " The pressing need in this country and many across Europe is for pro-investment mobile regulation. This book describes, for the first time, what a pro-investment mobile regulatory framework might look like. It is packed with illustrative examples of how it might work. This it is one of those rare revolutions where everyone can be a winner – consumers, commerce & industry struggling to improve their productivity and mobile operators seeking sustainable profitability.
Exactly twenty years ago Ofcom adopted the market mechanism tools. Managing mobile spectrum then became almost a separate sealed world from the economics and engineering of mobile network modernisations. The two authors are the first to have broken through the wall separating the two worlds to reveal:
(1) Just how poor the cost-benefit trade-off of the market mechanisms has been over the 3G, 4G and 5G network upgrades. The spectrum efficiency benefits have been invisible. The case for change is decisive.
(2) Ofcom has to change to a new “infrastructure quality driven” regulatory approach if it is to meet its legal duty to ensure optimal use of licensed mobile spectrum.
This new “infrastructure quality driven” revolution has two things going for it: Firstly, it is the only way spectrum policy can contribute to significantly improving the economic value of mobile spectrum for the country. Second, consumers will be delighted to finally have all the coverage not-spots filled in and a guaranteed seamless minimum data speed of 10 Mb/s in every corner of the United Kingdom. There is no alternative." |
