As a case in point, we see the next step in technical capabilities will require an even greater understanding of not just coverage, capacity and throughput optimization but latency as well.Īn increasing number of deployments in the areas of industrialization and mission-critical communications across agencies and enterprises have already begun to highlight this shift. We believe the deployment of C-Band will accelerate steadily through the end of 2022 and beyond, and that will drive the need for new teaming and partnerships across the ecosystem. market to other countries highlights the real question and takeaway: “What are these carriers investing in?” From my perspective, the ROI will be in the strategic long-term capability of what this spectrum provides, which in itself will present both significant obstacles and opportunities. Our company published a white paper that explores why this is a critical long-term investment. As Forbes contributor Bob O'Donnell notes, the C-Band auction indicates a ' dramatic shift in 5G.'įrom a traditional analysis, looking at revenue and incremental costs, the FCC’s Auction 107 results are quite remarkable in terms of the record money raised. C-Band spectrum is a very attractive option for wireless carriers to deploy due to its hybrid characteristics of providing higher speeds and lower latency than traditional low-band spectrum (leveraging the airwaves you are probably using to read this on your smartphone), and much broader coverage than so-called high-band spectrum like millimeter wave, which provides huge swaths of bandwidth and multi-gigabit speeds but much less coverage. The FCC's auction of very rare and valuable wireless spectrum (commonly referred to as C-Band) set a record, raising over $80 billion for this critical source of radio airwaves.

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