3.45-3.55 GHz Reallocation in relation to AREDN

I didn't see any language that says Amateur Radio would loose any allocation in this band, rather typical to share the allocation.    We also see this in the 5GHz allocation. There are FCC studies to re-purpose all the way up past 6GHz to become the unlicensed broadband allocation.  The old T1 1.5Mbps commercial links are horrendously inefficient use of the space. 

It's going to be a different ball game in the future with the use of this valuable bandwidth.    The way 802.11 technologies are evolving, getting smarter and smarter, the idea is that a radio will negotiate with neighbor radios to find available frequency space and channel to use.   Consider if a Wireless ISP, data link for a company, or a ham radio mesh radio did not have or need a channel selection.  Rather it operated in a given band, and dynamically negotiated with all the other devices to optimize use of the available bandwidth and channels.   No registration with a tower owner or entity to use specific frequencies, rather only registration of a band in use.  The devices would talk to each other and change channel and bandwidth dynamically to find optimal data thoughput in the environment to co-exist with each other.  The 802.11 specification would define how devices would decide what channel and bandwidth to use.  If a transmitter was idle, other devices would dynamic start using the channel to increase overall thoughput for active traffic.   If the entire band became congested, then everyone would share the limitation the same.

it puts Amateur Radio on equal footing with commercial interests for use of the space, when using the same technology and overlapping frequencies.   Maybe we'll see devices doing this in 10 years or so, maybe sooner.

Joe AE6XE

I work in the telecom industry. The RF spectrum that AREDN uses is worth billions of dollars in leasing fees. With the 5G rollout, there are an army of lawyers and lobbyists looking for every way take over spectrum owned by 'non-payers' and are even starting to use unlicensed spectrum (like 902-928MHz, 2.4GHz, and 5Ghz, etc.). They say they have a 'cognitive' way of not interfering with the rest of the users (mostly WiFi users), but I have yet to see a system that doesn't degrade the original users' experience in some way. And when they do interfere, you can try reporting them - likely nothing will happen. 
I don't mean to sound cynical, but if we don't have active lobbyist representation fighting for the bands that we use here with AREDN, we will incrementally loose it. I already see telecoms preparing to infringe on our 9cm band (3.3-3.5GHz) and the higher end of our 5cm band (5.9GHz). 
I'm not trying to alarm anybody, just trying to assuage folks from being passive.
Is there a way to donate to ARRL Legislative Action Program? Are they even fighting to keep our spectrum?

-Damon K9CQB