The Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) Office of Engineering and Technology has requested comments on a series of spectrum policy recommendations proposed by the FCC’s Technological Advisory Council (TAC) “to address the increasing challenges of efficient and fair allocation of spectrum in congested RF [radio frequency] environments, and in particular, the challenges of finding a balance between the rights and responsibilities of transmitters and receivers.” According to the Notice, “The TAC believes that adoption of these principles…could be useful in helping to improve the compatibility of services that operate under [existing or] new spectrum allocations.”
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Thomas Lenard is Senior Fellow and President Emeritus at the Technology Policy Institute. Lenard is the author or coauthor of numerous books and articles on telecommunications, electricity, antitrust, privacy, e-commerce and other regulatory issues. His publications include Net Neutrality or Net Neutering: Should Broadband Internet Services Be Regulated?; The Digital Economy Fact Book; Privacy and the Commercial Use of Personal Information; Competition, Innovation and the Microsoft Monopoly: Antitrust in the Digital Marketplace; and Deregulating Electricity: The Federal Role.
Before joining the Technology Policy Institute, Lenard was acting president, senior vice president for research and senior fellow at The Progress & Freedom Foundation. He has served in senior economics positions at the Office of Management and Budget, the Federal Trade Commission and the Council on Wage and Price Stability, and was a member of the economics faculty at the University of California, Davis. He is a past president and chairman of the board of the National Economists Club.
Lenard is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin and holds a PhD in economics from Brown University. He can be reached at [email protected]
