CBRS has the potential to democratize parts of the wireless industry by giving non-operator entities the ability to deploy and operate their own networks, if they’re game. The analysts at SNS Telecom project that by next year 90 percent of new smartphones sold in the U.S. will support the CBRS band, but that does not mean they will automatically connect to private CBRS networks.
The OnGo Alliance, an industry consortium formed to promote CBRS use cases and deployments, has defined several ways to enable CBRS roaming.
One scenario is called the service provider use case, meaning that a mobile or cable network operator deploys a CBRS network and provisions devices to roam between a public network and a private network with a separate core.
Verizon, DISH Network, Comcast, Charter and Cox are well positioned to do this because they were the biggest buyers of CBRS spectrum licenses in FCC Auction 105. Comcast has tested a private CBRS network at Philadelphia’s Wells Fargo Center, but so far the other big license winners seem more focused on using their CBRS spectrum in their public networks. Continue Reading |
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