For Immediate Release
July 28, 2025
Contact: [email protected]
In case you missed it – Dean Bubley, founder and director of Disruptive Analysis, published an essay on RCR Wireless outlining how the Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) “innovation band” supports the U.S. manufacturing industry. As policymakers work to deliver on the Trump administration’s promise to bring manufacturing jobs back to the U.S., Bubley emphasized the importance of defending the CBRS ecosystem, which has major impacts on manufacturers’ capacity, connectivity and competitiveness.
“CBRS-based private networks are critical for the US objective for re-shoring manufacturing, growing skilled local employment and eliminating the trade deficit in goods, while retaining competitiveness and ability to operate productively and safely,” wrote Bubley. “If the spectrum they use for connecting internal systems is carelessly removed, they face significant increased costs and possible operational downtime.”
Bubley is the founder and director of Disruptive Analysis and has over 25 years of experience advising and speaking in the telecom industry.
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CBRS spectrum helps US manufacturing grow
RCR Wireless
Dean Bubley, Founder of Disruptive Analysis
July 28, 2025
“The emergence of private 5G networks in the US manufacturing sector is revolutionizing industrial connectivity and competitiveness. At the heart of this trend is the Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) – a shared 3.5 GHz spectrum band (Band 48) that allows enterprises to operate their own LTE/5G networks on-site. This is enabling greater automation, safety and operational flexibility, which contributes to the renaissance of the US manufacturing sector, and associated investment, employment and trade.
However, the current Congressional budget reconciliation process may be putting this at risk. Policymakers are hoping to raise significant revenues from spectrum auctions for mobile networks, but without sufficiently protecting the CBRS “innovation band” that is essential for any renewed growth and innovation in US manufacturing.”
Specifically, some market participants have proposed “moving” the CBRS dynamic-spectrum band to another frequency range, in order to free up the currently used spectrum for the exclusive use of the three large, national cellular carriers. This would be an enormous error, with potential harms to a wide range of important US industries that are leveraging CBRS for innovation — including manufacturing. Such a move would be a step backward in innovation, involve huge costs, and strip industrial enterprise customers of competitive or self-customized alternatives to the big carriers’ “take it or leave it” connectivity offerings – potentially leading to significant downtime at factories.”
Read Dean’s full column on RCR Wireless.
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