White House Wants Portions of 7 GHz Band for Licensed Use
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WASHINGTON, Dec. 22, 2025 – The Commerce Department has one year to complete a study on how to free up 275 megahertz of federal spectrum for licensed commercial use.
Late Friday the White House published a memo directing Commerce's National Telecommunications and Information Administration to “immediately begin the process of identifying the band of spectrum frequencies at 7.125-7.4 GigaHertz (GHz) for reallocation for full-power commercial licensed use cases.”
The memo said incumbent federal users had to collaborate and produce plans to relocate their systems elsewhere, including to the 7.4-8.4 GHz band. It also directed the agency to study the 2.69-2.9 GHz and 4.4-4.94 GHz bands, but didn’t provide a deadline.
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