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If what you’re saying is true then my meter should not be picking up any signals above 4 GHz correct?

So why is my meter picking up signals up to 40 GHz from the towers in my small tourist town?

that spectrum isn't for phones. https://www.ntia.doc.gov/files/ntia/publications/2003-alloch... will let you know how the spectrum is allocated.

except the diagram shows several mobile blocks right above 40ghz, so what do you mean?

"Mobile" frequency allocations dont necessarily mean mobile phones. It just refers to an allocation for devices that arent transmitting from a fixed position.

I said "up to".

Probably a tower-to-tower link? It's sometimes cheaper to use a radio link rather than bringing cables to a new tower location. Or sometimes as a resilience measure.

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