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We’re doing testing in the U.K. right now in collaboration with their equivalent of the Pentagon,” Tarazi said. “We’re doing education in about 20 countries to regulators. Our intention is to start the global discussion after the full commercialization in the U.S. Our line of argument is not a spectrum one but more of a public policy and consumer-friendly one.” He said there are broad opportunities that spectrum sharing can drive “and what underpins all of it is our spectrum sharing technology. We want the U.S. system to continue to develop because ultimately the rest of the world looks to the U.S.”
Given the potential user base, variety of applications and deployment configurations, Tarazi highlighted the key role ecosystem development and stakeholder engagement has played in bringing CBRS to life.
He said the more traditional approach around spectrum utilization is “build it and they will come,” but, in this case, “It has taken us three years to get here doing market development. You start with business development, you start with ecosystem development. This is sort of a very agile and intricate process where everything you learn in market development you feed into the regulatory process. That’s why at the end of it you’re able to create a very large ecosystem.”