At its July 10 meeting, the Federal Communications Commission will consider “an order to open up the 2.5 GHz band for 5G,” says FCC Chairman Ajit Pai. “ This is the single largest band of contiguous spectrum below 3 GHz.”
“But much of this public resource has been unused for decades,” said Pai. “On July 10, the Commission will vote on an order that will modernize an outdated regulatory regime for the 2.5 GHz band, a regime developed in the days when educational TV was the only use envisioned for this spectrum.”
One can argue that very little of the educational spectrum has been deemed a “successful” use of spectrum resources. In fact, much of that spectrum has found its way to communications service provider uses. In some cases, education spectrum was released to support new microwave subscription TV services that never took off, either.
Then entrepreneurs tried using that same spectrum to support microwave services for business customers, with mixed success.
Much of that spectrum was, in turn, auctioned off to mobile service providers such as Sprint.
And now it appears much of that spectrum will be made available for 5G.
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