What's the state of play for CBRS?

The Citizens Broadband Radio Service band and its shared-use model has opened the door to multiple deployment use cases, including cable operator wireless offloading in high-usage areas to keep MVNO costs in check, a few fixed wireless access deployments, and an array of private network rollouts. Charter Communications, which has already deployed CBRS in several markets, is taking things a step further with its ongoing "Fiber-powered DAS" initiative, which is focused on running 5G traffic on the hybrid fiber/coax network.  With the Federal Communications Commission and National Telecommunications and Information Administratio both searching high and low to fulfill mandates to locate spectrum, CBRS has emerged as a potential target, with arguments being made that existing CBRS users could be relocated. AT&T has advocated relocating CBRS users via an incentive auction, while others want to explore high-power use in the CBRS band. To get a sense of how incumbent CBRS users view all of this, Dave Wright, policy director for Spectrum for the Future, and Jason Wallin, an OnGo Alliance board member and John Deere exec, join the Signal Strength podcast to discuss how CBRS might be impacted as the FCC and NTIA search for spectrum. Wright and Wallin, who are advocates for incumbent CBRS users, also explain whether the band is under siege or only mildly threatened.