Spectrum for the Future

The Citizens Broadband Radio Service spectrum band is increasingly delivering many of the most important innovations, competitive pressures, and consumer benefits in the wireless marketplace. By enabling new entrants to deploy localized wireless infrastructure and offload traffic onto privately managed spectrum, CBRS is creating new forms of competition that were previously impossible without billions of dollars in auction spending. To support the wireless data needs of U.S.

Spectrum for the Future was among 29 wireless innovators, leading businesses, and other spectrum users to urge U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick to maintain and protect the Citizens Broadband Radio Service from changes that would undermine U.S. global wireless leadership. Protecting shared spectrum access in the CBRS band will ensure that American companies can continue to innovate and invest in critical shared spectrum technology that will provide an offramp from zero sum game spectrum fights and enable win-win spectrum solutions for both U.S. economic and national security.