Technical & Business Acumen

Radio Spectrum Leadership

  • Assessment — Radio License Valuation

  • Auctions — Due Diligence, Investment support, Automated and Optimized Bidding, Round by Round Support

  • Technical Analysis — Interference, Band, Block & Geography evaluation. Engineering analysis of energy, security, and performance for wireless, satellite, and unmanned aeronautical Systems. MIMO, Smart Antennas, Small Cells, 5G & 6G evaluations.

  • Standards & Regulatory Support — (3GPP, IEEE, TIA, CPRI, UL)

  • Educational Support — Rutgers University, Stevens Institute, mentorships, industrial affiliation

Spectrum Financial Consulting’s founder, Stephen Wilkus, has over 30 years of experience, beginning with research and development of Surface Acoustic Wave (SAW) devices used in wireless and spread spectrum systems. This lead to work in Bell Labs for early IEEE 802.11 spread spectrum LAN system engineering; then mobile wireless system architecture, standards, regulatory and field studies. Stephen has been an invited panelist at FCC Workshops and other international workshops.

More recently Spectrum Financial Consulting has provided radio spectrum auction support for Spectrum Financial Partners, and three other clients.

 

Contact Us

3336 Videra Dr
Eugene, OR 97405

Stephen.WIlkus@SpectrumFinancialPartners.com
+1 (732) 533-3286

Areas of Practice


Assessment

 

Using historical auction data and other FCC datasets, industry trends, and public records, Spectrum Financial Consulting has provided clients with valuations for their radio licenses for use in negotiations and regulatory filings.

We also provide assessments of technology investments in the energy, wireless, satellite, and unmanned aeronautical systems domains.


Auctions

 

The founders of Spectrum Financial Consulting had first founded an investment partnership for acquiring and monetizing radio spectrum licenses, particularly in the lower bands. Experience and resulting business relationships have to lead to many other projects involving consulting and bidding in many more recent auctions. We have automated the bidding and optimization via solving the Knapsack problem using Integer Programming capabilities of Mathematica™.


Standards and Regulatory Support

 

We bring great experience in standards bodies such as CPRI, ETSI, IEEE, TIA and organizations such as the WiFi Forum to support all aspects of our client’s technical needs, including advocacy in these standards fora.

We have been invited panelists of FCC workshops, the IWPC and 4GAmericas (now 5GAmericas, Mexico’s CoFeTel. We have submitted more than 10 filings to FCC deliberations including a declaration in support of a client interested in the T-Mobile/Sprint merger. This helped the client to gain a role as a 4th nationwide mobile 5G wireless service provider.


“I'm not an optimist. That makes me sound naive. I'm a very serious “possibilist”. That’s something I made up. It means someone who neither hopes without reason, nor fears without reason, someone who constantly resists the overdramatic worldview. As a possibilist, I see all this progress, and it fills me with conviction and hope that further progress is possible.”

– Hans Rosling

Get in Touch

Stephen.Wilkus@SpectrumFinancialPartners.com
+1 732 533-3286