For Immediate Release

April 16, 2026

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In case you missed it – A new Washington Examiner article from Andrew Clegg, co-founder of Valo Analytica and a former Google spectrum engineer, makes the case that raising power limits in the 3.5 GHz Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) band would risk the shared-access model that has made CBRS work.

CBRS is an American success story in dynamic spectrum sharing, one that has enabled more than 1,000 operators to build networks for manufacturing, airport operations, rural broadband, utilities, and other essential services. Clegg warns that the current rules were designed to support dense, localized use of the band and that dramatically higher-power operations would disrupt the carefully engineered sharing environment that existing users depend on.

“The current framework attracted thousands of operators and hundreds of millions in private capital precisely because it rewards competitive access over spectrum concentration,” Clegg writes. “Regulatory certainty over the band’s future would accelerate that investment significantly — uncertainty does the opposite. Changing the rules now would strand existing deployments and freeze the very innovation the band was designed to foster.”

Citing findings from his Valo Analytica study, Clegg points to a 1,000-fold degradation of throughput at John Deere manufacturing facilities, the loss of nearly a third of network capacity at Miami International Airport, and repeated outages for rural broadband customers in underserved communities, such as those experienced by Ohio-based provider Amplex Internet.

He underscores that preserving CBRS is key to safeguarding a proven shared-spectrum model that supports diverse users, U.S. investment and innovation.

Read Andrew Clegg’s full op-ed here.