U.S. Needs More Commercial Spectrum to Lead on AI and Reindustrializa…

The U.S. needs to auction more commercial radio spectrum faster than mandated by the 2025 One Big Beautiful Bill Act to support AI infrastructure and industrial automation. The Trump administration should target 1,000 MHz of auctioned spectrum by January 2029, with focus on transferring federally-held spectrum to the private sector. If you build infrastructure that runs on wireless—robotics, factory automation, edge AI, connected devices—your costs and performance are about to be determined by spectrum scarcity. The government has just set a 2034 deadline to release 800 MHz, but the bottleneck is real now; push for the faster 2029 target or watch your competitors in China access better connectivity sooner.