This Week: The FCC's Spectrum Pipeline with Arpan Sura

The Week with Roger · Aug 24, 2026 · 16m

Analysts Don Kellogg and Roger Entner are joined by Arpan Sura, Senior Counsel to FCC Chairman Brendan Carr, to discuss the current state of spectrum policy, the changing technological landscape, and the agency’s plans for the future of communications in America.

00:00 Episode intro

00:24 Current spectrum auction policy

02:40 Specific auction timelines

04:59 Growing political support for spectrum

06:57 Upcoming auctions

07:20 Intermodal competition through direct-to-device

08:44 Starlink's reliability and convergence possibility

10:10 Rethinking technical limitations

11:48 Unlicensed spectrum…