Adaptive spectrum as a service

A user device, comprising:

• a processor;
• and
• a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, facilitate performance of operations, the operations comprise adaptive spectrum operations based on an iterative process to incrementally adjust a current bandwidth to a future bandwidth, the adaptive spectrum operations comprising:
• communicating with a network device to request an increase in user device bandwidth over a current allotted bandwidth;
• and
• in response to receiving the request, obtaining additional bandwidth over the current allotted bandwidth resulting in an updated bandwidth for the user device.

A non-transitory machine-readable medium, comprising executable instructions that, when executed by a processor of a user device, facilitate performance of operations, the operations comprise adaptive spectrum operations based on an iterative process to incrementally adjust a current bandwidth to a future bandwidth, the adaptive spectrum operations comprising:

• determining, based on a usage criterion applicable to the user device, an amount of additional bandwidth to request;
• communicating information indicating the amount of additional bandwidth to request to a network device;
• and
• receiving scheduling data that is to facilitate further communication of spectrum that is to enable the additional bandwidth.