Turn on 5G, Turn Off Old Landlines: FCC Plans Future of Phone Networks

Michael Calabrese was quoted in Ars Technica about the FCC voting to open spectrum for 5G:

Consumer advocacy group Public Knowledge said the FCC's plan is good overall, but it didn't get universal praise. Michael Calabrese, director of the Wireless Future Program at New America's Open Technology Institute, called the FCC order "extremely shortsighted."

"Because the big carriers will use these bands only in city centers and high-traffic indoor venues, exclusive and indefinite licenses over large geographic areas is a recipe for leaving these millimeter bands vacant in more than 95 percent of the country and millions of venues," Calabrese told Ars. Calabrese wants public access to all unused spectrum in the new bands.