Ex-FCC Chair Ajit Pai Is Now a Wireless Lobbyist—and Enemy of Cable Companies

In The News Piece in Ars Technica
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June 9, 2025

Michael Calabrese, director of New America's Wireless Future, is quoted in an Ars Technica article about how ex‑FCC Chair Ajit Pai’s shift into wireless lobbying has positioned him against cable industry priorities.

"Spectrum for the Future is basically the 'everybody but Big Mobile' wireless coalition and 'a very broad but ad hoc coalition.'"
"The new plan 'would pull the rug out from under more than 1,000 CBRS operators that have deployed more than 400,000 base stations.' While they could, in theory, share DoD spectrum lower in the band, that spectrum will now be so congested it's unclear how or when that could be implemented.'"
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