This newly published document delivers a collective, de-identified statistical overview of Citizens Broadband Radio Service rollouts and spectrum utilization across the United States.
This document supplies the industry with an open, fact-backed perspective on the marketplace while completely safeguarding the privacy of individual installations.”— Richard Bernhardt, President of the ForumWASHINGTON, DC, UNITED STATES, August 27, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ — The Wireless Innovation Forum (WInnForum) today announced the release of CBRS By the Numbers (WINNF-SSC-3550 Version 1.0.0), a fresh report that compiles a combined, de‑identified statistical summary of Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) deployments and spectrum use throughout the United States. Drawing on Full Activity Dump (FAD) information supplied by every Spectrum Access System (SAS) administrator, the document presents one of the broadest pictures currently available of the CBRS landscape.
“CBRS has grown into one of the biggest and most successful dynamic spectrum sharing frameworks in the world,” said Richard Bernhardt, President of the WInnForum and Vice President, Spectrum and Industry for WISPA. “This document supplies the industry with an open, fact‑backed perspective on the marketplace while completely safeguarding the privacy of individual installations. We expect these observations will help interested parties better grasp deployment patterns, technology adoption, and the ongoing expansion of the CBRS ecosystem.”
CBRS By the Numbers was created by the Forum’s CBRS Committee to give sector stakeholders impartial statistics on deployment patterns, equipment variety, spectrum use, and operational features. Using FAD data current as of May 1, 2026, the report lists over 440,000 active Citizens Broadband Radio Service Devices (CBSDs) and more than 1.3 million active spectrum grants. The analysis also identifies 157 unique FCC‑certified CBRS equipment models currently in operation and studies adoption patterns across LTE, 5G NR, and proprietary wireless technologies.
The document features statistics on CBSD deployment categories, indoor and outdoor installations, PAL and GAA spectrum usage, granted bandwidth, grant allocation patterns, antenna heights, and nationwide deployment heatmaps at both the state and county levels. These insights allow the CBRS community to gain a more detailed understanding of how dynamic spectrum sharing is being rolled out and used across the United States.
The report is accessible at: https://winnforum.org/winnforum-cbrs-policies-and-procedures-wireless-innovation-forum/ and will be refreshed periodically to mirror the newest deployment and operational trends observed in the CBRS ecosystem. Contributors include representatives from Ericsson, Federated Wireless, RED Technologies, and Sony.
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