William Lehr

Biographic Data

ID4639501
NAMEWilliam Lehr
GIVEN NAMESWilliam
FAMILY NAMELehr
SIGNATURELEHR W
AFFILIATIONSMassachusetts Institute of Technology
ORCID0000-0003-2902-3874
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS8
WORKS AS AUTHOR9
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2006
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX2

  • Building an ecosystem for mobile broadband measurement

    Open AccessZoraida Frias, William Lehr et al.ARTICLETelecommunications Policy2025References: 7

  • Automating spectrum sharing

    Open AccessWilliam Lehr, Randall Berry et al.ARTICLETelecommunications Policy2025References: 9

  • Revisiting Wireless Internet Connectivity

    Open AccessEdward J Oughton, William Lehr et al.ARTICLETelecommunications Policy2021

    In recent years, significant attention has been directed toward the fifth generation of wireless broadband connectivity known as ‘5G’, currently being deployed by Mobile Network Operators. Surprisingly, there has been considerably less attention paid to ‘Wi-Fi 6’, the new IEEE 802.1ax standard in the family of Wireless Local Area Network technologies with features targeting private, edge-networks. This paper revisits the suitability of cellular a…

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    Open AccessWilliam Lehr, Fabian Queder et al.ARTICLETelecommunications Policy2021

  • Whither the Public Internet

    Open AccessWilliam Lehr, David D Clark et al.ARTICLEJournal of Information Policy2019References: 1

    This article addresses the question of what should be meant by the phrase the Internet, or equivalently, the public Internet. Since its origins in the 1960s, the Internet has changed significantly in terms of the networks and technologies, services that are supported, and industry players who participate in the Internet ecosystem, growing in global economic and social importance. This article discusses the changing role of the network operators a…

  • Regulating the Cloud

    Joe Weinman, Marjory S Blumenthal et al.BOOKRegulating the Cloud - Policy for…2015

    The emergence of the cloud as infrastructure: experts from a range of disciplines consider policy issues including reliability, privacy, consumer protection, national security, and copyright. The emergence of cloud computing marks the moment when computing has become, materially and symbolically, infrastructure—a sociotechnical system that is ubiquitous, essential, and foundational. Increasingly integral to the operation of other critical infrast…

  • Measuring Performance when Broadband is the New PSTN

    Open AccessWilliam Lehr, Steven Bauer et al.ARTICLEJournal of Information Policy2013Cited by: 1References: 2

    The transition of telecommunications services from the old Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) to the broadband Internet does not alleviate the needs of consumers for basic services. The Internet universe, however, is mostly unregulated. As broadband becomes the new PSTN, how do we ensure that services are delivered appropriately, and how can this be measured? Doctors Lehr, Bauer, and Clark propose an updated set of measurements and address …

  • Wireless is changing the policy calculus for municipal broadband

    Open AccessWilliam Lehr, Marvin A Sirbu et al.ARTICLEGovernment Information Quarterly2006Cited by: 3References: 1

  • Evolving wireless access technologies for municipal broadband

    Open AccessMarvin A Sirbu, Marvin Sirbu et al.ARTICLEGovernment Information Quarterly2006Cited by: 4