Trump 2.0 will probably give a big helping hand to fixed-wireless access

Although there's nothing concrete yet on the topic from Trump 2.0, Washington insiders are growing more hopeful that the new US president will push through regulations that will help 5G network operators deploy more cell towers for services like fixed wireless access (FWA). That would undoubtedly please big 5G carriers like Verizon and T-Mobile as well as smaller players like C Spire, which are already offering FWA service to millions of customers. A focus by President Donald Trump on fixed wireless could also represent a blow to fiber operators like AT&T, which are hoping to use federal programs like the Broadband Equity Access and Deployment (BEAD) effort to subsidize their fiber buildouts. However, Trump has not yet made any concrete decisions about BEAD specifically or wireless in general. Indeed, the wireless topic wasn't important enough for him to address it in his flurry of first-day executive orders.