TPRC

Paper Sessions Friday, September 21

9:00 am - 10:40 am

Spectrum 1

Moderator: Marcela Gomez, University of Pittsburgh

• Applying an Information Based Decision Analysis to Spectrum Management Regulatory Decisions, Mark Lofquist, University of Colorado at Boulder; David Reed, University of Colorado at Boulder

• NewSpace Spectrum Sharing: Assessing Interference Risk and Mitigations for New Satellite Constellations, Susan Tonkin; Jean Pierre de Vries, University of Colorado at Boulder Law School - Silicon Flatirons Center

• Sophisticated Spectrum Sharing Analysis: The Case of the 5.9 GHz Band, Yimin Pang, University of Colorado, Boulder; Joey Padden, CableLabs; Rob Alderfer, CableLabs

Privacy/Security 1

Moderator: Alissa Cooper, IETF/Cisco

• Factors Influencing Password Reuse: A Case Study, Jacob Abbott, Indiana University Bloomington; Daniel Calarco, Indiana University Bloomington; L. Jean Camp, Indiana University Bloomington

• Roles for Policy-Makers in Emerging Cyber Insurance Industry Partnerships, Josephine Wolff, Rochester Institute of Technology; William Lehr, Massachusetts Institute of Technology CSAIL

• Consumer-ISP Security Notification and Remediation Strategies: An International Analysis, Nathaniel Fruchter, MIT; Steven Bauer, MIT

Broadband 1

Moderator: Gigi Sohn, Georgetown Law Institute for Technology Law and Policy

• The Influence of Topography and Fracking on Cellular Network Availability in Underserved Areas of Pennsylvania, Benjamin W. Cramer, Pennsylvania State University

• USDA's Rural Utilities Service and Rural Broadband: A Multistakeholder Approach to American Broadband Policy, Christopher Ali, University of Virginia

• The Effect of Institutions, on the Access and Adoption of Telecommunication Services in Mexico, 2013-2018, Christina Casanueva-Reguart, Universidad Iberoamericana

Competition Policy 1

Moderator: Mark Jamison, University of Florida

• Hello... Are You Still There? An Empirical Analysis How Market Structure Affects Quality in Mobile Networks, Nicolas Wellmann

• The Evolution of Broadband Competition in Local US Markets: A Distributional Analysis, Kenneth Flamm, University of Texas at Austin; Pablo Varas, University of Texas at Austin

• The Low Capital Intensity of Telecommunications and its Business and Policy Implications, Andrew Odlyzko, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities

Broadband 2

Moderator: Doug Brake, ITIF

• Old-style Utility Regulation for New-style Cloud-TV?, Eli M. Noam, Columbia Business School

• Building a Digital Twin: Testing the Effectiveness of Telecommunication Policies in a Virtual World, Edward Oughton, University of Oxford;

• Telecom Deja Vu: A Model for Sharing in Broadband Access, Douglas Sicker, Carnegie Mellon University; William Lehr, Massachusetts Institute of Technology CSAIL,

11:05 am - 12:45pm

Privacy/Security 2

Moderator: Eric Mill, GSA/USDS

• Assessing Cybersecurity Policy Effectiveness in Africa via a Cybersecurity Liability Index, Kwasi Adomako, Carnegie Mellon University Africa; Nabeel Mohamed, Carnegie Mellon University; Aminata Garba, Carnegie Mellon University; Martin Saint, Carnegie Mellon University

• How Public Should Public Data Be? Privacy and E-Governance in India, Chintan Vaishnav, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Karen Solons, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Nikita Kodali, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

• Reviewing a Historical Internet Vulnerability: Why Isn't BGP More Secure and What Can We Do About it?, Cecilia Testart, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Data Science & Analysis

Moderator: James Miller, FCC

• The Impact of Technology Procurement Regulations on Social Value and National Competitiveness, Frank Nagle, Harvard University (please contact the author at fnagle@hbs.edu for a copy of the paper.)

• The Smart Flanders Program: A Collaborative and Co-Creative Approach to the Development and Implementation of a Joint Open Data Policy Amongst Cities, Nil Walravens, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, imec-SMIT

• Whispering Into Princes' Ears: An Empirical Analysis of Ex Parte Meetings at the Federal Communications Commission, Adam Candeub, Michigan State University College of Law; Sherrod Blankner, Phlebas Consulting

Emerging Technologies 1

Moderator: Andrew Stivers, FTC

• Can Social Media Help Build Communities? Eric Forbush, University of Pennsylvania; Nicol Turner-Lee, Brookings Institute

• Public Understanding of Algorithms and Trust in Platforms, Grant Blank, University of Oxford - Oxford Internet Institute; Bianca Reisdorf, Michigan State University

• What Social Media Platforms Can Learn from Audience Measurement: Lessons in the Self-Regulation of 'Black Boxes', Philip M. Napoli, Duke University

User/Consumer Behavior

Moderator: Rob Frieden, Pennsylvania State University

• A Study of Spatial Differentiation in Online Personal Health Realization of Rural Agricultural and Non-Agricultural Populations, Peter L. Stenberg, U.S. Department of Agriculture

• Interactivity, Awareness, and Adoption: The Impact of Mobile Phones on Agricultural Innovation in Africa, Heather Hudson, University of Alaska Anchorage

• Decomposing the ICT Use Gender Gap for Five Latin American Countries Roxana Barrantes, Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru-PCUP; Aileen Aguero Garcia, Instituto de Estudios Peruanos; Paulo Matos, Instituto de Estudios Peruanos

Broadband 3

Moderator: Bronwyn Howell, Victoria University of New Zealand

• Last-Mile Connectivity Deployments in the Global South: An Exploratory Study of the Sustainability of New Business Models, Sharada Srinivasan, University of Pennsylvania Law School

• Keep Calm and Fight on: A Comparative Study of Network Neutrality in the United States, South Korea and Israel, Sangyong Han, University of Pennsylvania Law School; Amit M. Schejter, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

• Zero-Rating and Net Neutrality in the Mobile Market: The Case of Japan, Toshiya Jitsuzumi, Chuo University

4:10 pm - 5:50 pm

Spectrum 2

Moderator: Scott Wallsten, TPI

• Mobile Investment and Traffic per Capita Tend to Increase with License Duration, François Jeanjean, France Telecom - Orange Group; Marc Lebourges, France Telecom; Julienne Liang, France Telecom

• Modelling the Impact of Spectrum Sharing on Spectrum Value: The US Citizen Broadband Radio Service Ecosystem, Fernando Betrán, University of Auckland

• Spectrum Valuation: Implications for Sharing and Secondary Markets, Marcela Gomez, University of Pittsburgh; Martin B. H. Weiss, University of Pittsburgh; William Lehr, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Giulia McHenry, National Telecommunications and Information Administration

Innovation and Intellectual Property

Moderator: J Scott Marcus, Bruegel

• Is Faster Better? Quantifying the Relationship between Broadband Speed and Economic Growth, George S. Ford, Phoenix Center for Advanced Legal & Economic Public Policy Studies

• Technology Change and Its Impact on Labor Markets: A Historical Perspective, Martha Garcia-Murillo, Syracuse University - School of Information Studies; Ian MacInnes, Syracuse University

• The Importance of Broadband and Other Infrastructure for Entrepreneurship James Prieger, Pepperdine University

Competition Policy 2

Moderator: Silvia Elaluf Calderwood, Florida International University

• Bit-by-Bit Towards Unlimited: An Analysis of Zero Rating and Sponsored Data Practices of Internet Service Providers, Daniel Schnurr, University of Passau; Lukas Wiewiorra, Goethe University Frankfurt

• Content and Access Provision in a Discrete Competition Model, Petrus H Potgieter, University of South Africa; Bronwyn E. Howell, Victoria University of Wellington

• Double-Sided Internet Markets and the Need to Assess Both Upstream and Downstream Impacts, Rob Frieden, Pennsylvania State University

Emerging Technologies 2

Moderator: Adam Candeub, Michigan State

• 'I Am an Algorithm, Not a Product': Why Product Liability Is Not Well-Suited for Certain Types of Algorithms, Karni Chagal, University of Haifa, Faculty of Law

• Can a Machine Learn Under the GDPR?, Joel Thayer, ACT; Bijan Madhani, CCIA

• Mobile Privacy and Business-to-Platform Dependencies: An Analysis of SEC Disclosures, Ronan Fathaigh, University of Amsterdam - Institute for Information Law; Joris van Hoboken, University of Amsterdam - Institute for Information Law (IViR); N.A.N.M. van Eijk, Institute for Information Law (IViR)

Broadband 4

Moderator: Jason Whalley, Northumbria University

• Characterizing and Improving the Reliability of Broadband Internet Access, Zachary Bischof, Northwestern University; Fabian Bustamante, Northwestern University; Nick Feamster, Princeton University

• Wireless Network Recovery following Natural Disaster: Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria, Carleen Maitland, Pennsylvania State University; Jon M. Peha, Carnegie Mellon University

• The Policy Potential of Measurements of Internet Outages, John Heidemann, USC; Yuri Pradkin, USC; Guillermo Baltra, USC