Perspective - Publications.
It is the very success of unlicensed spectrum in enabling widespread and often specialist applications that makes the economic value it delivers difficult to comprehensively measure. Our analysis in Chapter 4 of only three unlicensed applications found that in total these might deliver $16 – 37 billion dollars of economic benefit annually over the next 15 years to the US economy. These applications are likely to represent only 15 percent of the total unlicensed devices that will ship in 2014. Consequently, our results might significantly underestimate the actual value that will be generated by unlicensed devices over the coming decade.
