Rethinking the Middleman

A new paper from Higher Ed Watch examines how the role of guaranty agencies in the Federal Family Education Loan Program impose unnecessary costs on taxpayers -- while creating opportunities for waste and abuse -- and recommends policy changes that can reform the program.

The End of Spectrum ‘Scarcity'

As the FCC begins its year-long process to recommend a National Broadband Plan, four papers from Wireless Future look at benefits to unlocking publicly-owned assets that can facilitate ubiquitous, affordable broadband access:

• The End of Spectrum Scarcity: Building on the TV Bands Database to Access Unused Public Airwaves
  By Michael Calabrese


• Revitalizing the Public Airwaves: Opportunistic Unlicensed Reuse of Government Spectrum
  By Victor Pickard and Sascha Meinrath


• New Approaches to Private Sector Sharing of Federal Government Spectrum
  By Michael J. Marcus


• A Potential Alliance for World-Wide Dynamic Spectrum Access: DSA as an Enabler of National Dynamic Spectrum Management
  By Preston F. Marshall