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by kotaKat 4 hours ago
If only the ability to work with a Spectrum Access System provider didn't get horribly gimped because Google Cloud decided to exit the SAS market.

https://cloud.google.com/products/spectrum-access-system

No other SAS providers are even willing to take my small business. I have to shut down all of my CBRS because of Google. An entire investment in loads of private LTE gear is now essentially useless because the rest of the SAS partners are "too large" (Federated Wireless, Nokia, "RED Technologies", and Sony will not give me the time of day).

Can you even deploy private LTE/5G now if you're a little guy, or are you now going to be forced to go pay a large deployer again that has the keys to SAS?

First it was an endless fight to get access to SIM provisioning and an eSIM provider that was willing to let me provision SIMs for myself, now I can't even get permission to run them on the air.