![]() that need mid-band spectrum to power their 5G networks. The FCC is looking to open up mid-band airwaves in the 3.7 gigahertz to 4.2 gigahertz range, also known as the C-band, to wireless carriers including Verizon Communications Inc. Mike Doyle (D-Pa.), who chairs the House Energy and Commerce Communications and Technology Subcommittee, asked at a recent industry conference in Washington D.C. ![]() “I think we have to ask ourselves: why should the FCC allow a group of foreign satellite providers to walk away with potentially tens of billions of dollars that could be used to solve our own country’s broadband needs?” Rep. Several influential lawmakers have fired warning shots at the agency in recent weeks, casting doubt over whether they’ll sit idly by if the FCC permits that kind of private sale of public airwaves at U.S. Such a sale to the nation’s biggest wireless providers could bring in as much as $40 billion-and now Congress is threatening to step in and prevent the FCC from allowing the satellite companies to pocket the money. and SES S.A., and allow them to sell their rights to a swath of public airwaves to speed the deployment of 5G technology. The Federal Communications Commission will soon decide whether to side with foreign satellite companies, including Intelsat S.A.
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