About Access Spectrum
Access Spectrum provides Exclusive Private Wireless® solutions that enable companies and government agencies to reduce operating costs, improve response times and increase reliability and control over wireless voice and data communications networks.

Unlike wireless systems that depend on carrier bandwidth, Exclusive Private Wireless solutions enable uncompromising control over system configuration, utilization and reliability. At the heart of the Exclusive Private Wireless solution is the ability to build on unshared and unencumbered national and regional wireless bandwidth (available at 700 MHz and 220 MHz), now available through Access Spectrum.

Background—
Spectrum, Band Managers and the
Exclusive Private Wireless® Opportunity
In 2000, the preeminent trade association for the two-way radio industry - the Industrial Telecommunications Association, Inc. (ITA) - successfully petitioned the FCC to auction six MHz of 700 MHz "Guard Band" spectrum specifically for "band managers".

Later that year, ITA's long-time President and CEO, Mark E. Crosby, created the business plan for a band manager to purchase 700 MHz spectrum to offer to end-users. This business plan was used by Crosby to attract prominent equity partners and served as the basis for the creation of Access Spectrum.

Access Spectrum purchased 21 MEAs in the 700 MHz Guard Band auctions that concluded in 2001. In August 2002, the company acquired the 220 MHz spectrum licenses from Aerwav, Inc., creating a national spectrum footprint. Today, Access Spectrum is able to provide exclusive, unencumbered spectrum to enterprises and private carriers throughout the country, in customized bandwidths, and covering customized geographic areas–without FCC licensing delays.

Access Spectrum is the leading band manager dedicated to providing fast, flexible and reliable communications solutions for wireless voice and data systems nationwide. Today, Exclusive Private Wireless solutions from Access Spectrum are giving critical infrastructure providers, and the wireless communications industry that serves them, the solutions to meet bottom-line communications needs.