AT&T Satisfied With Spectrum Position

“More and more” of AT&T’s spectrum is being redeployed for 5G, and it won’t disclose the makeup, Senior Vice President-Wireless and Access Technology Igal Elbaz told a UBS webinar Friday. Previously, carriers had to take a band out of service and re-farm it, he said. Dynamic spectrum sharing “really allows you to run both 4G and 5G, all in the same band,” he said. The 80 MHz of C band that AT&T bought in the recent auction is “extremely important in order for us, and by the way, for the industry, to scale 5G,” he said. AT&T is “very happy” with its current spectrum position, he said. AT&T will start to deploy C band at year-end, with plans to cover 75 million POPs at the end of 2022 and 200 million at the end of 2023, he said.