Incumbents, Tier 1, include US Military Radar and Fixed Satellite Stations. It also includes Wireless ISPs who will be transitioning to Tiers 2 or 3.

Priority Access Licensees, or PAL, participated in the FCC spectrum auction held in July 2020. Up to seven 10 MHz channels licenses were awarded in each county level auctions.

General Authorized Access users, or GAA, have access to part of the 3650-3700 MHz portion of the band, depending on the prior allocation and use. Many of these users were engaged in trials of the CBRS Private Network operations.

The model developed by the FCC for this spectrum allocation can apply to other frequencies, such as the C band at 3700-3980 MHz and the 3110-3550 MHz band.

Winners of the spectrum auction in July 2020 include entities as diverse as large Cellular Carriers, small Regional Carriers, Utility companies, Cable providers, Oil & Gas companies and Universities.

Industry observers expect that some of the spectrum winners will use their licenses to sub-lease at a local level. We expect many interesting installations among these users.

Citizen Broadband Radio Service is compatible with both 4G LTE and 5G. Many of the networks being installed today are using 4G LTE technology, but the systems can migrate to 5G when users are interested in making that change. As different types of networks are installed, we expect to see the need for a variety of antenna solutions for the CBRS Private LTE networks.