Supporters Urge Capitol Hill to Protect Unlicensed, Shared Spectrum

In The News Piece in Broadband Breakfast
Person typing on their laptop that displays WiFI symbol
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June 20, 2025

Michael Calabrese, director of the Wireless Future Project at New America's Open Technology Institute, is quoted in a Broadband Breakfast article about protecting unlicensed, shared spectrum from being auctioned by the Federal Communications Commission.

"The high pipeline total could pressure the FCC to look at selling off some 6 GHz spectrum."
β€œIt's a really bad sign that they would explicitly drop the exclusion for 6 GHz...It really paints a target on Wi-Fi – or at least a big portion of the upper six gigahertz band – as something that could be auctioned.”