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PRACTICAL STEPS TO SPECTRUM MARKETS

Why is it that wireline bandwidth is traded as a commodity while federal regulation effectively blocks the formation of similar markets for wireless? Given the key role of wireless technologies in today's telecommunications sector, the Joint Center will convene a group of experts to discuss this pertinent policy question. Panelists will debate reforms such as liberalization of wireless licenses issued by the FCC, streamlining methods to resolve interference disputes, and other practical steps to enable market allocation of radio spectrum.

Friday, November 9, 2001
8:30 a.m.--1:30 p.m.
Wohlstetter Conference Center, Twelfth Floor, AEI
1150 Seventeenth Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036

8:00 a.m.	    Registration

8:30             Welcome:    Robert W. Hahn, AEI-Brookings Joint Center

                    BREAKFAST ADDRESS
                                        Senator Ron Wyden (D-Oreg.)

9:00             SESSION 1: ENABLING BANDWIDTH MARKETS
                    Panelists:    Michele Farquhar, Hogan & Hartson
                                       Thomas W. Hazlett, AEI and Joint Center
                                       Evan Kwerel, FCC
                                       Gregory Rosston, Stanford University
                                       John Williams, FCC

10:45           SESSION 2: UNBLOCKING SPECTRUM ALLOCATION
                    Panelists:     Mike Chartier, Intel
                                        Dewayne Hendricks, Dandin Group
                                        Giancarlo Ibarguen, Francisco Marroquin University
                                        Joe Mitola III, Mitre

12:15 p.m.   LUNCHEON ADDRESS
                                        Nancy J. Victory,
                                                 Assistant Secretary of Commerce
                                                 Administrator, National Telecommunications and
                                                                         Information Administration

1:30             Adjournment


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