Spectrum

Telephone and Data Systems announced that it has submitted a proposal to the Board of Directors of Array Digital Infrastructure, Inc. to acquire, by way of a merger, all of the outstanding common shares of Array that are not currently owned by TDS in an all-stock transaction.

The Citizens Broadband Radio Service community has a message for anyone pushing for higher CBRS power levels: back off. CBRS proponents held a webinar hosted by New America where they highlighted two studies—one showing how the private wireless CBRS network market is growing and another describing the enormous disruption that would result if higher power levels were introduced. For the past several years, wireless carriers have been pushing for higher power base stations in the 3.55-3.7 GHz CBRS ban

At the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, we are moving with urgency to modernize federal operations, improve efficiency, and get more spectrum into the marketplace. Our goal is to meet and hopefully exceed Congress’ timeline to find the spectrum that will power the next generation of wireless innovation. I look forward to delving into status of the bands we are studying and how we plan to meet our targets. I also want to highlight a new tool from NTIA that will track our progress in real time.

The National Telecommunications and Information Administration at the U.S. Department of Commerce announced that it is launching Spectrum.gov, which will bring all of NTIA’s spectrum resources for federal spectrum managers, policymakers, industry, and the public under one easy-to-navigate website. Assistant Secretary Roth announced the new website during her keynote remarks at the 2026 CTIA Summit.

In a prior spectrum speech, I compared spectrum reallocation to my packed minivan—everyone fighting over seats, a struggle to balance competing needs, and someone in the back dramatically announcing they never wanted to go on this trip to begin with. And as a mom of six, I can tell you—my eight-seater minivan is truly at capacity. No amount of rearranging is going to create a ninth spot. Spectrum is different. We’re not stuck with a fixed number of seats. We can reconfigure, modernize, and make more room.

It’s pretty well-known that T-Mobile’s 2.5 GHz spectrum is its workhorse, on top of the 600 MHz that comprises the lowest layer of its spectrum “layer cake.” Its use of millimeter wave—which sits at the top of the cake—isn’t so well-known.

A new report from ABI Research highlights a sharp increase in demand for Wi-Fi technologies in business environments and the need to protect and expand the unlicensed spectrum on which Wi-Fi relies. Published recently following the 6th anniversary of the U.S.

On May 4, 2026, NextNav engineers ascended to the roof of 10 South Almaden Boulevard in San Jose (CA) to conduct a real-world coexistence demonstration using the company’s 5G PNT Network and a standard RFID reader with multiple RFID tags. The goal was straightforward: to put recent claims about RFID interference to the test and use a real-world demonstration to lower the temperature of this discussion. For months, some in the RFID industry have claimed that NextNav’s proposal to enable 5G-powered 3D PNT in the lower 900 MHz band would disrupt RFID devices and impose billions of dollars in c

Productive use of the airwaves is essential to not only everyday wireless services but also national leadership in wireless technologies. Therefore, technological and policy mechanisms that enhance the productivity of spectrum are important pieces of the national economy. Often, however, decades of accreted allocation decisions coupled with technological changes have left bands in arrangements less productive than they could be, and changed allocations could enable greater commercial spectrum access and thus more productive wireless applications that benefit consumers and innovation.

The Federal Communications Commission voted to modernize its satellite spectrum-sharing rules. This is a major step toward enhancing the satellite broadband experience for millions of Americans by enabling faster speeds, lower costs, and greater reliability. This change could also unlock more than $2 billion in economic benefits for the American people and up to seven-fold more capacity for space-based broadband services.