A newly released progress report goes over the state of federal users’ transitions out of auctioned bands ranging from AWS-1 to CBRS and additional midband spectrum at 3.45-3.55 GHz.
The annual Commercial Spectrum Enhancement Act report for 2021 was released earlier this month by the Department of Commerce and the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA). For some of these federal users, final transition out of the band is taking a decade or more, plus millions of dollars per year in ongoing expenses to relocate operations and achieve “comparable capability” to their previous operations.
