With the Priority Access License Auction concluded, the Citizens Broadband Radio Service continues to expand its ecosystem related to the secondary PALs market and network planning tools.
Select Spectrum, a secondary spectrum broker, said this week (pdf) that it plans to launch on web-based platform, CBRS Direct, in January to facilitate leasing and sub-leasing of PALs on both a full-county basis and for smaller geographic areas. The company noted that while the Federal Communications Commission ultimately settled on PALs that were county-sized, there was significant interest in even smaller, census-tract sizes for licenses.