Huh, TIL about this. I did a bit of digging around and the 3.6GHz band appears to have been licensed in Australia in 2018 (https://www.acma.gov.au/auction-summa

Huh, TIL about this. I did a bit of digging around and the 3.6GHz band appears to have been licensed in Australia in 2018 (https://www.acma.gov.au/auction-summary-36-ghz-band-2018 https://www.acma.gov.au/auction-summary-36-ghz-band-2018) after some consideration of what the US was doing (https://www.acma.gov.au/sites/default/files/2020-02/3_6%20GHz%20Band_Options%20Paper.pdf https://www.acma.gov.au/sites/default/files/2020-02/3_6%20GH..., ~p40) and then apparently developing amnesia (https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=https://www.acma.gov.au/sites/default/files/2019-10/3.4%20GHz%20and%203.6%20GHz%20band%20consultation%20-%20outcomes%20and%20response%20to%20submissions.docx https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=https://www.acma.gov.au/s...) (yay). I did a bit of poking around trying to figure out what the magma radio you speak of would look like but came up completely blank. I'm very curious how this works? I'm also interested to understand (albeit from a literal distance) more about the teams you mention, particularly how phones (you specify "modern" - does that mean 5G? 4G? 4G-with-these-specific-extras?) can roam onto CBRS-spectra networks with eSIMs - I just learned about these and wouldn't mind building a good orientational mental model about them. *Penny drop* OH so that's why the ACMA auction mentioned the 3.6GHz spectra was relevant to 5G... you say modern phones can roam onto CBRS??? How-- oooooh, that's really interesting, I finally get what you mean about throwing crypto into the mix to incentivise (presumably the radios aren't too cheap yet). I don't think I can play with this in Australia (but am unsure how to read the situation, for all I know I'm barking up the wrong tree with the above links) but this is very cool to know about.