The FCC has taken an early stance as part of its aim to put the US in the forefront of 5G development and deployment. In November, it kicked off a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, identifying the 28 GHz, 37 GHz, 39 GHz and 64-71 GHz bands for investigation for 5G, and proposing new flexible use service rules in them. However, critics such as T-Mobile have complained that the regulator has been too narrow, rejecting the 42 GHz, 32 GHz, 70 GHz and 80 GHz bands even though they each have at least 500 MHz of contiguous spectrum available. The FCC’s choices do not map entirely to the list of high frequency bands selected by last year’s World Radio Conference for…