The FCC will meet on the 22nd of July to vote on its plans to auction 160 MHz in the Upper-C band. The auction would be held next for frequencies between 3.98 and 4.2 GHz.
The range does not include any frequencies used by amateur radio. The FCC is mandated under the Working Families Tax Cut Act of 2025 to sell off at least 100 MHz of C-band spectrum by July of 2027. The agency aims to create a single band for wireless operations on the C-band through the use of the range between 3.70 and 4.14 GHz.
The FCC recently completed a $3.5 billion spectrum auction - its first in four years. Competition bidding ended on the 23rd of June for frequencies that belong to the Advanced Wireless Services, or AWS-3, bands used by major mobile carriers.
