NERA Economic Consulting again served as knowledge partner for Forum Europe's European Spectrum Management Conference, held in Brussels on 19-20 June 2012. In the role as knowledge partner, NERA advised on the agenda for the event and helped to identify expert speakers on spectrum management issues.

NERA Senior Vice President Richard Marsden presented twice at the event. On the first day, he chaired the breakout session on the role of auction design in promoting coverage obligations for broadband. The panel included senior regulators from Denmark and Romania, and a spectrum expert from Deutsche Telekom. Mr. Marsden delivered an introductory presentation, which can be downloaded here.

On the second day, Mr. Marsden presented to the full conference on options for alleviating the "spectrum crunch." His presentation explored the potential role and trade-offs between more than a dozen potential actions by operators and regulators to address the rising demand for spectrum, which in turn is being driven by escalating demand for mobile broadband services. This presentation can be downloaded here.

NERA is also the knowledge partner for the forthcoming 2nd Annual Americas Spectrum Management Conference, to be held in Washington, DC on October 23-24. Further information about this event is available on the Forum Global website.