Name
Spectrum Is Strategy: Prioritizing Your Most Constrained Asset
Date
Tuesday, November 3, 2026
Time
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location Name
Octavius 1
Description

Frame spectrum as an executive resource allocation decision. Discuss where to spend, where to reuse, when to shift technologies, and how spectrum choices affect competitiveness, reliability, and growth.

Speakers
Stephen Coran - Lerman Senter Steve Coran is chair of Lerman Senter's Broadband, Spectrum, and Communications Infrastructure practice group. He represents broadband providers, private equity firms, equipment and technology companies, and new technology firms, serving their policy, transactional, compliance, and licensing needs. He also actively represents a trade association before the FCC, Congress, and other federal agencies in matters involving spectrum policy, broadband funding programs, Internet regulation, the Universal Service Fund, and other proceedings affecting wireless broadband service providers and technology interests. Steve has extensive experience in negotiating complex, multi-party transactions for the purchase, sale, and financing of established and start-up communications businesses, and also drafting and negotiating spectrum lease, tower lease, dark fiber, and other agreements. He has represented financial institutions and foreign companies in connection with public and private investments. Steve also advises on regulatory compliance and FCC enforcement matters. His work has included assisting a client in obtaining, through a competitive process, significant federal funding to build a territory-wide gigabit fiber network. In another matter, he credits his team’s “expert advocacy and attention to detail” for creating a positive result in an FCC enforcement proceeding. Steve comes by his communications law career honestly, having spent his undergraduate years as a news reporter for radio stations in his native Ohio. Learning to write for the ear and the eye and ask hard questions makes him a persuasive communicator and an effective builder of successful relationships to promote advocacy results. Steve spreads the word through frequent presentations at seminars and conferences on a wide variety of regulatory, legislative, and communications industry issues. Steve has been recognized as a Best Lawyer for 2024 and 2025 and is A/V rated by Martindale Hubbell, the highest peer review rating available to attorneys, and one which provides an objective indicator that a lawyer has the highest ethical standards and professional ability.
Stephen Coran