Friday 17 April, 2026
The US is expected to see increasing data usage resulting in greater spectrum needs over the next decade. Efforts are being made to provide this additional capacity, especially as the US strives to become a global 6G leader.
The OB3 Act has sought to address the medium-term spectrum shortfall, including mid-band spectrum. While this aligns with work done globally to find spectrum, it does so over a broad selection of possible ranges, whereas a lot of global activity has revolved around the upper 6 GHz band. However, with the 800 MHz of additional spectrum proposed by the Act by around 2030, the US keeps on level terms with other global leaders.
In this new report we take a look at how mid-bands are used today and how the continued evaluation of spectrum use (by both mobile and Wi-Fi) will support the best possible US mobile networks and invigorate the country’s technology leadership.
