Mobile broadband needs more spectrum

August 18th, 2009

Chris Guttman-McCabe, vice president of regulatory affairs at CTIA, thinks that the need to get more spectrum in the pipeline is crucial now.  “Guttman-McCabe notes that it took about 10 years to get the 700 MHz spectrum auctioned off from the time it was identified. That spectrum is the basis for the upcoming fourth-generation long term evolution wireless networks from Verizon and AT&T. He says that we currently have just 50 Mhz in the pipeline for future use.”