This book consists of four parts:

The first is a primer, designed to ensure that all readers have sufficient knowledge to tackle the material in the rest of the book. It covers spectrum management fundamentals, technical issues, and basic economics.

The second covers conventional economic methods of spectrum management, such as auctions, trading, and pricing, which have been evolving for a decade or more.

The third looks at spectrum management approaches which we believe will become more prominent in future, including shared and dynamic spectrum access and new ways of licensing based on interference caused.

The fourth looks at some case studies and issues. It uses the UHF TV band to illustrate a number of principles from earlier chapters, considers approaches that might be adopted in the public sector in international spectrum management, and examines the role of spectrum in the wider economy. Finally, it contains our projection of trends and the key agenda which we think needs to be tackled.