The Federal Communications Commission’s Wireless Telecommunications Bureau (Bureau) recently granted the University of Utah a conditional waiver of the FCC’s security and equipment authorization requirements. The conditional waiver allows the University to use an “experimental sand box” it terms POWDER (short for Platform for Open Wireless Data-driven Experimental Research) to test new, innovative wireless spectrum systems and applications involving unlicensed broadband spectrum in the Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS).

The waiver provides a useful roadmap for other research universities who similarly are considering experimental test beds for wireless innovation and research involving broadband spectrum.

CBRS

The CBRS band is managed by a sharing regime in which Spectrum Access

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