KB Enterprises and its strategic partner LS telcom filed a proposal with the FCC to create a database that will identify unused channels in the broadcast TV bands so they can be used by devices to provide data and voice services in the “white spaces” between broadcast stations. There were eight other proposals submitted, including [...]
We’re proud to announce that KB Enterprises is joining forces with LS Telcom to work to solve the global spectrum crisis. The combination of KB Enterprise’s forward thinking with regard to spectrum policy and spectrum markets and LS Telcom’s spectrum management software and years of spectrum engineering experience allows us to examine the global spectrum [...]
The FCC released a Second Report and Order and Memorandum Opinion and Order on November 4, 2008 that authorized the use of devices in the “white spaces” of the TV broadcast bands. In this order the Commission set out technical requirements for white spaces devices, protections for incumbent services and details about the TV bands [...]
This presentation on spectrum auctions was delivered at the iWeek conference in South Africa on September 3, 2009.
KB Enterprises filed comments in FCC dockets 09-157 — Fostering Innovation and Investment in the Wireless Communications Market — and 09-51 — a National Broadband Plan for our Future. The comments focused on the topics of making spectrum available for new uses; access to spectrum; interference protection; and band sharing and efficient use. Find the comments [...]
KBE was retained by the Open Spectrum Alliance to provide analysis and recommendations on the assignment of spectrum in the 2.6 and 3.5 GHz bands in South Africa. The report was filed with the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa and can be found here. The Open Spectrum Alliance (OSA) is a multi-disciplinary grouping of [...]
From ITWeb: “Highlighting MWeb’s issue, Open Spectrum Alliance representative and international spectrum guru Karen Wrege explained that internationally, when reserve prices were set too high, auctions inevitably failed. Wrege also cautioned the regulator that setting the reserve price too low would allow any business, whether capable of rolling out a network or not, to have [...]
Fifty years ago, Ronald Coase’s Journal of Law and Economics article “The Federal Communications Commission,” sewed the seeds of change with regard to spectrum management. Coase set forth the idea of creating property-like rights for spectrum and having the government sell those rights. Coase’s ideas did forever change spectrum management, resulting in market-based approaches to [...]
South Africa Connect Public Seminar 21st October 2009 Spectrum Auctions : Lessons learned from around the world Presented by: Karen Wrege, KB Enterprises This presentation identifies some of the goals and objectives that countries have developed for their spectrum management activities, focusing on spectrum auctions as an assignment mechanism, and will give real world examples [...]
Prepared Remarks of Karen Wrege Co-Founder KB Enterprises LLC Before the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa October 21, 2009 My name is Karen Wrege and I am co-founder of KB Enterprises, LLC a company that specializes in designing and implementing complex government auctions. Our founders were responsible for developing the first simultaneous multiple round [...]
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