With the caveat that lots of bills get approved in the U.S. House of Representatives or U.S. Senate that never get acted upon, the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation has forwarded the “Mobile Now ” act for consideration by the whole Senate.
If voted upon and approved, the bill would have to be enacted by the U.S. House of Representatives as well.
The act directs the Federal Communications Commission and National Telecommunications and Information Administration to identify and make available for commercial use 255 megahertz of new spectrum resources below the 6 GHz band, by 2020.
Frequencies between 3.1-3.5 GHz and 3.7-4.2 GHz bands are chief candidates. What is not so clear is the role of spectrum sharing, which many believe would be a “better” way to release spectrum, rather than moving existing users. The bill is non-committal on ways to clear spectrum, either by spectrum sales or spectrum sharing (with licensed users getting a percentage of commercial sharing revenue).
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