I believe CBRS band 48 (3.5Ghz) is lightly licensed but I don't remember if you can set it up as a primary carrier on LTE.
I really really want to see real world usage of NR-U and as a possible replacement of WiFi.
In an ideal world, your radio manufacturer and software vendors would have appropriate patent licenses in place.
For this and other reasons (handset support being commercially problematic since carriers want to preserve their dominance), I don't see NR-U really replacing Wi-Fi. The friction to joining a device to a network is also far higher, and there's much more complexity in running the network and architecting a suitable core network and user plane functions and keeping it all running. WiFi really is a lot simpler in many ways.
I was hoping for some exemption or special arrangement on the patent issues for consumer private 5G Network. WiFI just sucks, comparatively speaking. Including WiFI 6E. And judging from the ways they are doing things I have very little hope for 802.11ay and 802.11be ( WiFi 7 ).
Outta curiosity, why do you say 6E sucks?
It is indeed an innovative way to give access to spectrum, but it's a pity it has been done in this band (which had a huge potential for usual operators in terms of site reuse).
I suspect in Europe a light licensing approach such as CBRS might be considered in higher bands such as 26 GHz...