Development of Secondary Markets

This document outlines in general terms a series of initiatives that the Commission intends to undertake to promote secondary markets for spectrum. The Commission's current policies concerning transfer, assignment, disaggregation and partitioning of licenses allow certain licensees to market portions of their spectrum to others. In this effort, the Commission seeks to significantly expand and enhance the existing secondary markets for spectrum and radio communications services to permit spectrum to flow more freely among users and uses in response to economic demand, to the extent consistent with our other statutory mandates and public interest objectives.