Cruz, Thune Bow Spectrum Pipeline Act; Cantwell Eyes CBO Scoring Slimmed Package

Wireless Future Project Director Michael Calabrese is quoted in a Communications Daily article about the newly-unveiled Spectrum Pipeline Act of 2024, with Calabrese criticizing the bill.

New America’s Open Technology Institute's Michael Calabrese criticized the proposal. “This bill is dead on arrival, not only with Democrats, but also with some Republicans on Senate Armed Services Committee,” he emailed us. “A mandate to auction 1,250 megahertz within five years necessarily presupposes that the Pentagon is going to not just share, but clear off a majority of the spectrum they currently rely on in the lower 3 GHz and 7 to 8 GHz bands. That would be a backdoor maneuver to undermine the studies of those same bands in” the Biden administration’s national spectrum strategy.