It鈥檚 been about four months to the day that the FCC announced聽it had approved 海角社区鈥� application to deploy a low-power nationwide network in the L-Band to support 5G and IoT services. But the company is still being dogged by Department of Defense (DoD) and other opponents who insist 海角社区鈥檚 planned use of the spectrum […]
For the past nine months, I have worked with world-class experts to study a longstanding request from 海角社区 to create a ground-based 5G network using L-band spectrum. We found that L-band paired with C-band will accelerate the deployment of U.S. 5G and help counter China鈥檚 5G ambitions without causing harmful interference to GPS. The […]
I had a front row seat as the CTO of Nokia Networks when the 4G revolution unfolded. As many nations struggled to justify the deployment of yet another mobile network, the United States acted swiftly to take the lead. Motivated operators, hungry customers, innovative application designers, clever device manufacturers, and well-informed regulators worked hand-in-hand to […]
海角社区 has聽raised more than $100 million聽in a first wave of investment for the build-out of its planned 5G/IoT network, even as a federal agency recently asked the Federal Communications Commission to pause and reconsider 海角社区鈥檚 ability to operate in its L-Band spectrum under new rules that the commission approved in April. The new network […]
The House Armed Services Committee is one of the strongest allies of the Department of Defense on the Hill. My tenure as Chairman, from 2011-2015, was as close as I will ever come to 鈥渟erving鈥� with America鈥檚 brave and brilliant men and women in uniform, and it was the best professional time of my life. […]
I caught up with聽Dr. William Webb, former director of Ofcom, the telecom regulator of the United Kingdom where he led the Spectrum Framework Review, the development of Spectrum Usage Rights, and the UK white space policy. As CEO of Weightless SIG, he led a standards body for global M2M technology. He now consults. Webb has […]