Updated: July 29, 2026
 
The second C-band clearing in six years leaves satellite operators with just 40 MHz over the contiguous U.S., shrinking their once-500 MHz allocation to 8% of its 2019 footprint.
 
Our latest Industry Insight breaks down the engineering, economics, and politics behind the FCC's July 22 decision: why Congress ordered the move, why 12 nearly new satellites stand to lose most of their U.S. capacity, how billions in transition costs will be financed, what the FCC's still-redacted incentive split means for incumbent operators SES, Eutelsat, and Telesat, and how SpaceX's 11 filings yielded little more than an auction paddle.