With both mmWave and midband 5G auctions concluded and development and/or deployment underway for existing spectrum releases, one of the biggest spectrum question now is: What’s next?
Conversations on spectrum policy are shifting focus to renewing the pipeline of airwaves under consideration for future use, both for 5G and as-yet-unstandardized 6G systems. Federal agencies are also reconsidering their roles and relationships in shaping that pipeline, and where innovation or spectrum sharing may help to bolster commercial spectrum access while not interfering with the ability of agencies as diverse as NASA, the Department of Defense, the Federal Aviation Administration and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to do their daily work.
