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This, in my opinion is an excellent text detailing how we arrived at the FAA/FCC C-Band face off. I believe it also answers many of the questions raised in this thread: "Boeing, Airbus executives urge delay in U.S. 5G wireless deployment" [0].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29642222

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PaulHoule|4 years ago

I like it but was resistant to the glib claim contained in that ‘spectrum is scarce in the U.S.’.

I can’t speak for microwave spectrum but I know a lot about the land between 50Mhz and 1 GHz because I have travelled with a scanner and I can say that UHF/VHF is crowded on the west coast but practically fallow on the East coast. L.A. seems to have more hams speaking Cambodian on the 2 meter band in a few blocks of L.A. than you hear total in the NYC metro area. The TV industry killed whit spaces because there are no white spaces in LA (get 100+ digital sub channel with a cheap antenna) but even in ‘crowded’ New England you find that the nearest city is too far to get good reception but too close for them to put a transmitter in closer to you. It is almost all white space on the east coast even in crowded areas…. Go to the mountains 200 miles inland and it is a RF dead spot bigger than most countries.