Unlicensed: The case of Wi-Fi
Vic Hayes and Wolter Lemstra of the Economics of Infrastructures section in the Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management at Delft University of Technology, have co-authored a paper entitled, Unlicensed: The case of Wi-Fi, which argues that the current day success of Wi-Fi is a combined result of (1) a change in the US communications policy in the 1980s; (2) the industry leadership provided by NCR to create a global standard; and (3) the influence of the users that moved the application of Wireless-LANs from the enterprise to the home, from indoor to outdoor use, from a communications product to a service, and from operators to end-users as the provider of that service. This paper was presented at the Genesis of Unlicensed Wireless Policy Conference at George Mason University School of Law in April 2008, and will appear in a forthcoming issue of info.
Click here to download a preprint version of the paper.
Click here to download the conference (.ppt) presentation.
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