Research Questions What is the potential economic value of opening the 5.9 GHz frequency band for WiFi use?... What trade-offs are associated with realizing this potential value, in terms of existing and future trends and policies and in terms of how this spectrum could be allocated?... Opening the 5.9 GHz band for WiFi could provide gains to economic welfare in the form of consumer and producer surplus of$ 82.2 billion to$ 189.9 billion....