For Immediate Release 

October 14, 2025

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In case you missed it – Dave Wright, policy director for Spectrum for the Future, recently joined Monica Paolini, principal at Senza Fili, on the company’s podcast “Sparring Partners” to discuss shared spectrum under the Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) and why “introducing more dynamic management of spectrum…is going to be critical,” reported Communications Daily.

“People used to refer to CBRS as an experiment. I think that was fine in the 2019-2020 timeframe. But now we’ve shown this works…We’ve been doing it for five years. We’ve got 420,000 base station radios operating in the band. We’ve had zero reports of interference to the incumbent military systems that operate in the band… It’s not an experiment anymore. It’s a proven real-world thing that’s providing critical services to a variety of sectors,” Dave Wright said during the discussion.

During the episode, Wright also pointed to CBRS’s low-power sharing model as the key to its success. Unlike macro cellular bands where major wireless carriers dominate at higher powers, the lower-power sharing framework of the CBRS band allows for a wider array of users to share the band without interference, unlocking innovation, jobs, and billions of dollars of U.S. investment.

“We were always a lower-power, localized band supporting a variety of services, and that was the Commission’s intent from the get-go…So, the innovation that’s going on with CBRS and private LTE and private 5G…has all happened because it’s a lower-power, localized deployment band,” said Dave.

Listen to this full episode of Sparring Partners here.