CTIA's Pai Meets With Gomez on Spectrum Priorities
New CTIA President Ajit Pai met with FCC Commissioner Anna Gomez to discuss the group’s spectrum priorities, said a filing Wednesday in docket 25-59. Pai stressed the importance of the upper C band to carriers, the focus of a notice of inquiry commissioners approved 4-0 in February. CTIA urged the commission “to repurpose as much of the 220-megahertz band as possible for 5G,” the filing said.
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In 2023, wireless data use by Americans “nearly doubled over a two-year period and set the largest single-year increase ever,” CTIA said. “Wireless providers have met this demand thanks to massive investment in ever more efficient 5G networks, but continuing to meet marketplace demand without more spectrum is unsustainable.”