For Immediate Release
July 30, 2025
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In case you missed it – Dean Bubley, the founder and director of Disruptive Analysis, recently published a new article in Broadband Breakfast, highlighting the importance of the Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS)—America’s ‘innovation band’—and the unlicensed 6GHz band in filling critical connectivity gaps and powering innovation in American manufacturing. Bubley urged the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) to look elsewhere to meet the spectrum demands laid out by the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.
“Neither the CBRS band (3.55-3.7GHz) nor the 6GHz band are attractive or rational targets for the FCC to auction. Both would be extremely problematic to carve out for high-power 5G/6G for multiple legal, political and technical reasons. They would endanger enterprise wireless for some of the US’s most strategic industries, undermine rural broadband providers and put at risk the world-respected US lead in dynamic spectrum-sharing and Wi-Fi innovation,” wrote Bubley.
As the founder and director of Disruptive Analysis, Bubley has more than 25 years of experience advising and speaking in the telecom industry on a variety of topics, including spectrum.
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Next Steps After OBBBA: Do no harm to CBRS or 6GHz
Broadband Breakfast
Dean Bubley, Founder of Disruptive Analysis
July 30, 2025
The new budget legislation in the United States, called the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA), recently passed into law. Deep in the legislation is a section on spectrum, with which the US Government intends to raise around $85 billion for the U.S. Treasury from auctions and ensuing licenses for commercial wireless use. It not only reinstates the FCC’s authority to hold auctions, but it sets goals for at least 800 megahertz (MHz) of spectrum to be auctioned.
The bill carves out two bands that cannot be considered for auction or relocation: the 3.1-3.45GHz and 7.4-8.4 GHz ranges – spectrum primarily used by the military for applications such as missile defense and satellite communications.
However, the new law does not offer similar specific protections for two other bands desired by the cellular carriers: the CBRS band between 3.55-3.7GHz, and the unlicensed 6GHz band between 5.9-7.1GHz.
Read the full piece on Broadband Breakfast.