CTIA SUPER MOBILITY | DAY 1
“Before this administration goes, we need to schedule the high band auction and we need to make clear that all innovators can use unlicensed spectrum on the same terms,” Baker said. “The next president must have an aggressive 5G plan. Every mobile company today has a mobile strategy; so too, must our nation. We need a schedule of spectrum to be auctioned over the next decade, a pipeline that includes hundreds of megahertz with a mix of low, medium and high-band spectrum…we need siting rules at every level of government to be streamlined.”
“Before the end of this year, the commission will take up a reform proposal supported by all the nation’s major wireless carriers – save one – that will tackle this issue to encourage innovation and investment in what will now be called business data services while ensuring that a lack of competition in some places cannot be used to hold 5G hostage. There must be fair backhaul prices and availability if we are to connect these small cells.”
CTIA SUPER MOBILITY | Day 2
“4G is great, but the future requires 5G,” Suri said. “The fact is that 4G, while a big step forward, has largely been about doing what 2G and 3G could do just better and faster. While the continuing evolutions of 4G are remarkably powerful, they will never have the capacity, latency, reliability and flexibility to meet the needs of the use cases that have the potential to radically improve our world nor will they have the ability to support the massive amount of machine-type devices that are expected.”
Super Mobility | Day 3
"There's been a lot of challenge for the selling of recorded music," Legend said. "There's less money in the pot for all the people. For artists we still have it pretty good because we can make a lot of money on tour...we have ways outside of just the business of selling recorded music." That said, Legend thinks that streaming services and digital music have ultimately been good for music.
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Michael Markovic (Photographer) CTIA (Video)