Apparently, while Columbia U undergoes some massive rebuilding, it's rather difficult to get rooms up there. Thus CITI has taken to online activities with some gusto. Check their website <http://www.citicolumbia.org/> for an ongoing series on Digital Finance webinars. Equitable spectrum redistribution is a vital issue, and something the Internet Society spoke out about <https://www.internetsociety.org/policybriefs/spectrum/> just two days ago. This should be good viewing. New post on *ISOC-NY NOTICE BOARD* [image: CITI] <http://www.citicolumbia.org/>Today *Thursday October 12th 2017* at *3:30pm ET* the *Columbia Institute for Tele-Information <http://www.citicolumbia.org/> *presents an online conference *The FCC's Incentive Auction: Lessons Learned <http://www.citicolumbia.org/index.php/fccauction/>*. Description: The Incentive Auction is the most complex spectrum auction ever conducted It successively cleared 84 MHz of TV spectrum and re-allocated 70 MHz for mobile services. However, it also took approximately 4 years to design and bidding last 1 year and 1 day. Repacking of the cleared spectrum will take over 39 months before the spectrum will become fully available for the winning bidders. On the TV side, single entities owned multiple stations in many markets. In addition, the pricing algorithm left many anomalies. On the buy side, only one of the four national mobile operators entered any bids after the first stage, and only of the two smaller operators, with limited low-band holdings ex ante was successful in closing the gap with the stronger rivals. This conference addresses how well the auction achieved its policy goals. What may be improved? Should the FCC or other countries try to run two sided auctions again to clear spectrum for re-purposing. Speakers include *Eli Noam*, *Paul Garrett*, Chair in Public Policy and Business Responsibility, Columbia University; *David Salant*, Visiting Professor, Toulouse School of Economics; *Jon Peha*, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University; and *Greg Rosston*, Director of the Public Policy Program, Stanford University. The event will be webcast live on the *Internet Society's Livestream Channel <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/fccauction/>*. *View on Livestream*: https://livestream.com/internetsociety/fccauction *Twitter*: http://bit.ly/incentiveauction Comment <http://isoc-ny.org/p2/9487#respond> See all comments <http://isoc-ny.org/p2/9487#comments> *Permalink* http://isoc-ny.org/p2/9487 -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Joly MacFie 218 565 9365 Skype:punkcast -------------------------------------------------------------- -