POLK COUNTY BROADBAND PLAN
Spectrum Availability for Mobile Broadband
In the bands below 3.7 GHz, a total of 547 megahertz of bandwidth, at various levels, are currently licensed as
flexible use spectrum that can be used for mobile broadband.23 The 2010 National Broadband Plan calls for
making an additional 500 megahertz available for broadband use by 2020, of which 300 megahertz of bandwidth
between the levels of 225 MHz and 3.7 GHz should be made newly available for mobile use by 2015.24 Frequency
allocations for mobile broadband are scattered throughout the radio spectrum and are shared with other uses.
As an example, t