This playbook from US Ignite is a transcription of the Ignite on Air podcast, in which leaders from American cities shared their experiences with smart city small cells. They describe their interactions with wireless carriers and provide insight related to permitting, deployment strategies, and revenue opportunities.

This resource is a collection of lessons gathered from US Ignite's 2018 workshop on deploying wireless networking equipment, small cell sites, public Wi-Fi, and Internet of Things sensors. The playbook combines insights from local government, industry, and nonprofit organizations.

This set of recommendations proposes establishing an advanced wireless strategy to accelerate 5G deployment while developing next generation wireless technologies across America. This resource addresses the challenges of advancing 5G technologies and examines the proposed actions and necessary investments.

An article examining the roles and consequences of different approaches to 5G market design for innovation. The analysis is grounded in a conceptual framework that explicitly considers the complementarities among networks, applications, and services.

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This interview with Doug Dawson, president of CCG Consulting, focuses on the rural broadband market. The topics discussed include who provides service in those areas, what the challenges are for expansion, and how these networks are funded.

A policy paper arguing that the nation should dedicate a sizable share of public airwave spectrum auction proceeds to closing digital equity gaps and establish a reliable, proven vehicle to pursue this task. It outlines spectrum and its regulation, the forces driving the expansion of broadband demand, and precedents for channeling proceeds into public-purpose uses; and lays out a case for endowing a private Digital Futures Foundation to invest in the significant advancements in public-purpose applications and services needed to close the various digital equity gaps for the benefit of all Americans.

In this resource, the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies encourage state and local leaders to focus on equitable development that improves the quality of life in communities of color, specifically when it comes to 5G and smart city technology.

This resource from Boston Consulting Group and CTIA discusses the potential benefits of 5G in regard to economic growth and the job market. The report argues 5G will unlock benefits across the US, from densely populated cities to less dense communities. Chief recommendations for state, local, and federal government officials include working toward additional licensed spectrum, developing more efficient deployment policies, and encouraging the upskilling of the workforce to keep 5G's rollout on track.

The 2021 CTIA Annual Survey reveals updated data on wireless technologies and private investment into wireless networks. The survey reveals a large investment into 5G technologies and a startling increase in the number of cell sites in recent years. The survey demonstrates a steady increase in data-only device usage as well as 5G deployment.

This report analyzes the current and emerging generation of mobile wireless technologies and compares those technologies to wireline technologies such as fiber‐to‐the-premises (FTTP), cable broadband, and copper DSL across a range of technical parameters, including reliability, resilience, scalability, capacity, and latency. The report also evaluates wireless carriers’ mobile pricing and usage structures. The report concludes that, for both technical and business reasons, wireless technologies are not now, and will not be in the near-to-medium future, adequate alternatives or substitutes for wireline broadband.

A submitted testimony to the FCC demonstrating how the T-Mobile and Sprint merger would result in substantial harm to public interest and offers no merger-related benefits to the public.

This guidebook from CENIC explores strategies for access to broadband, funding and business models to support and sustain access, and models of broadband adoption for tribal communities, particularly those in rural California. It hopes to serve as a foundational guide for tribal leaders and communities to develop tribal-based approaches to infrastructure that will empower and enrich the community.

This piece examines the collaboration between governments, businesses, service providers, and other players required to bridge the digital divide. Collaboration between these players can help connect the next billion users in a scalable, cost-effective way to build future-proof networks.

This resource from BroadbandCommunities Magazine argues that 5G wireless lacks the capacity and cost-effectiveness to address the rural fixed broadband gap. The authors discuss how the 5G requirement for "deep fiber" renders it unlikely to be cost-effective in rural areas and simultaneously gives it the potential to bottleneck service.

An article that presents findings about broadband un-adopters— those who have their household internet connection discontinued—which represents 12 percent of those without broadband service. As these households represent an important part of broadband adoption, future policy efforts can benefit from understanding their reasons for terminating their connection.