STATEMENT OF
COMMISSIONER BRENDAN CARR

RE:	Facilitating Shared Use in the 3.1-3.55 GHz Band, WT Docket No. 19-348

	In January, I began calling 2019 the “Year of 5G.”  The concept of 5G leadership in America did, in fact, go viral.  My hashtag #YearOf5G sadly did not.  In my annual pursuit of dominating a very, very particular part of Twitter, today’s item gives me yet another hashtag candidate: The Year of 3 GHz.  That’s because 2020 is shaping up for tremendous action in that band.

	At the top of 3 GHz, we are focused on a 2020 auction of C-Band spectrum.  In the middle of the band, we have a 2020 auction of CBRS spectrum lined up.  And here at the bottom of 3 GHz, we are now taking steps that could make available up to 250 MHz of additional spectrum for advanced wireless services, including 5G.

	This is an NPRM, so I cannot promise where we will land precisely on all of the questions in 3.1-3.55 GHz—much as I cannot promise just how viral #YearOf3GHz will go.  But I can promise that this Commission will continue our work to free up more spectrum for next-gen applications.

I want to thank the Wireless Bureau for its work on this item.  It has my support.