Analysts Don Kellogg and Roger Entner are joined by Arpan Sura, Senior Counsel to FCC Chairman Brendan Carr, to discuss the current state of spectrum policy, the changing technological landscape, and the agency’s plans for the future of communications in America.
00:00 Episode intro
00:24 Current spectrum auction policy
02:40 Specific auction timelines
04:59 Growing political support for spectrum
06:57 Upcoming auctions
07:20 Intermodal competition through direct-to-device
08:44 Starlink's reliability and convergence possibility
10:10 Rethinking technical limitations
11:48 Unlicensed spectrum use
12:56 Companies becoming increasingly multi-modal
13:46 Two-year outlook and agency goals
16:27 Episode wrap-up
Tags: telecom, telecommunications, wireless, prepaid, postpaid, cellular phone, Don Kellogg, Roger Entner, Arpan Sura, FCC, spectrum, Brendan Carr, AWS-3, auctions, 6G, upper C-band, NTIA, BBB, satellite, FWA, direct-to-device, Starlink, rural, convergence, BEAD, fiber, cable, EchoStar, Grain
