Posted by Andrew Beck, Director of CBRS-SAS at CommScope
When the CBRS PAL licenses were issued and deployments began back in April, many GAA users assumed they immediately had 70 MHz less spectrum available to them. However, that’s not the case. More spectrum is becoming available for GAA users … Read More
Posted by Rashid Bhatti, Director of SAS Business Development at CommScope
FCC Auction 105 for CBRS Priority Access Licenses (PALs) concluded with $4.58B in gross proceeds. With another critical milestone behind us, it is time to look at what’s next for CBRS. For example, how and when can licensees put their newly acquired spectrum to use? How will PAL users impact GAA users? These questions and more were explored during a recent conversation between Oren Binder of the OnGo Alliance and Rashid Bhatti, Director of SAS Business Development at CommScope. Specifically, the two discussed the timeline to commercial PAL enablement and how organizations can put their PAL to use … Read More
Posted by Andrew Beck: In addition to abiding by FCC rules and actively supporting WInnForum and OnGo Alliance standards, CommScope has developed custom features to help our customers install and operate their CBRS networks more efficiently and cost effectively. One such feature is our ‘quick grant authorization’ for CBRS radio devices … Read More
The first phase of the recent C-band auction concluded with gross proceeds exceeding $80.9 billion. According to FierceWireless, it was the highest-grossing spectrum auction ever held in the U.S., shattering the previous $44.9 billion generated by the AWS-3 auction in 2015. As a new CommScope white paper notes, 3.5 GHz allocations in the United States include the 150 MHz CBRS band which is designated for shared use with limited transmit power. However, this band … Read More
Although CBRS (Citizens Band Radio Service) is a relatively new band in the United States, it has already proven itself across an increasing number of industries and use cases. A recent deployment in the education sector is the reason CommScope won the 2020 OnGo Award in the “Excellence in OnGo Enterprise Deployment” category … Read More
Written by Joanna Lynch | With the 3.7 GHz Service (aka C-Band) auction just a short time away, participants are finalizing their bidding strategies and making sure they have done their due diligence on the incumbents in the band … Read More
Citizen’s Broadband Radio Service (CBRS), dubbed the innovation band, was recently given the greenlight by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for full commercialization. This was a major milestone for the CBRS ecosystem and the wireless industry as a whole, as CBRS commercialization means … Read More
The Wireless Infrastructure Association (WIA) has published a white paper titled “The CBRS Opportunity” that explores how the Citizens Broadband Radio Service spectrum will help U.S. wireless carriers optimize traffic management on their networks … Read More