[2] Federated was founded in 2012 by Jeffrey H. Reed, Charles Clancy, Robert McGwier and Joseph Mitola, who subsequently co-applied for a number of patents relating to the operation of shared spectrum for wireless networks.
[3][4] Iyad Tarazi, who had left an executive position at Sprint Corporation in a March 2014 restructuring,[5] joined the company as CEO in September 2014.
[10] The company has worked closely with others in the broadband communications space "to develop standards and equipment to bring the idea to life".
[4] In April 2018, Verizon Communications announced that it was working with companies including Federated "on system testing across the 3.5GHz CBRS spectrum band".
[11] In May 2018, Verizon Communications announced the deployment of CBRS in its commercial network in Florida with Federated Wireless, Ericsson and Qualcomm.