AT&T proposes moving CBRS users via incentive auction

AT&T is urging the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to move existing CBRS spectrum users to a different portion of the 3GHz band. The company said the FCC could do so by conducting an incentive auction and using the proceeds from that auction to finance the relocation of current CBRS operations. "We propose an incentive auction that builds upon the success of the FCC's prior incentive auctions in the 600 MHz and 39 GHz bands," AT&T argued on its website, in a post by Rhonda Johnson, AT&T's EVP of Federal Regulatory Relations. AT&T's broad goal is to free up the 3.55GHz-3.7GHz band for high-power, licensed operations—the kind of operations its 5G network currently uses.