CBRS has become one of the most important wireless tools for enterprises looking to solve real-world connectivity challenges. In this OnGo Alliance webinar, Joel Lindholm, CEO and co-founder of InfiniG and a board member of the OnGo Alliance, explains how enterprises are using CBRS in two major ways: private wireless networks and neutral host mobile coverage.
Joel begins by distinguishing between these two enterprise use cases. A private network allows an enterprise to use CBRS spectrum for its own internal applications. In this model, the network is built for the enterprise’s specific operational needs, using dedicated radios, a private packet core, and devices that can be secured inside the company’s firewall. That gives the enterprise more control over performance, security, mobility, and quality of service than it can typically achieve with Wi-Fi or public mobile networks.
For private networks, Joel highlights several common drivers. One is quality. Enterprises can use CBRS to deliver steady throughput and predictable latency for applications that cannot tolerate unreliable connectivity. Examples include point-of-sale systems, push-to-talk communications, video surveillance, and other tools that need consistent wireless performance without the interference challenges often associated with unmanaged networks.
Another major driver is mobility. In environments such as warehouses, manufacturing facilities, logistics operations, and industrial sites, connected assets are constantly moving. Forklifts, automated guided vehicles, robots, and other mobile systems need reliable connectivity as they move across large facilities. Joel notes that this need is only increasing as more organizations adopt physical AI, robotics, and intelligent automation that depend on real-time communication between devices, applications, and operators.
CBRS private networks are also being adopted across critical infrastructure. Joel points to utilities, airports, shipyards, seaports, rail yards, military bases, and other environments where communications, visibility, and operational continuity are essential. Many of these networks are not visible to the average person, but they support the systems people rely on every day, from power and transportation to goods movement and public services.
The second major enterprise use case Joel discusses is neutral host mobile coverage. This is where CBRS directly addresses one of the most persistent problems in commercial buildings: poor indoor cellular service.
Historically, reliable in-building mobile coverage was difficult and expensive to deliver. Traditional approaches often required mobile network operators to bring licensed spectrum into a building, along with complex legal agreements, technical integrations, and coordination with the surrounding macro network. As a result, only the largest buildings or venues could typically justify the cost and complexity.
CBRS changes that equation. By using shared spectrum and a neutral host architecture, enterprises can bring mobile coverage from major operators into buildings with far less friction. Joel explains that this makes it possible to deliver reliable indoor cellular coverage in buildings of many sizes, not just the largest venues. The result is fewer dead zones, fewer dropped calls, better call quality, and a stronger mobile experience for employees, visitors, tenants, patients, students, and guests.
Joel also makes an important point that often gets overlooked: indoor mobile coverage is a safety issue, not just a convenience issue. Because neutral host coverage is integrated with mobile operators, it supports services such as 911 calls and wireless emergency alerts. When someone places a 911 call from inside a building, the network can help route that call to emergency responders and provide more precise location information. Wireless emergency alerts, including fire, hurricane, Amber, and other public safety alerts, also depend on cellular networks reaching people wherever they are inside the building.
That creates a strange gap in many U.S. buildings. Public safety DAS systems may be required so first responders can communicate once they arrive, but reliable neutral host mobile coverage is often not required to ensure people inside the building can call for help in the first place. Joel argues that this gap matters across verticals, from schools and hospitals to warehouses, factories, hotels, airports, and industrial sites.
For enterprises, the takeaway is clear: CBRS is not just a spectrum policy success story. It is a practical foundation for solving two urgent business problems. Private networks help organizations connect operational systems, mobile assets, and critical infrastructure. Neutral host networks help bring reliable mobile operator coverage indoors, where people increasingly depend on cellular service for work, safety, and daily communication.
InfiniG’s Mobile Coverage as a Service is built around this second opportunity: making secure, reliable, multi-operator indoor mobile coverage practical for enterprise buildings that have historically been underserved by traditional in-building cellular options.