Christopher Guttman-McCabe
Since joining CTIA in 2001, Chris Guttman-McCabe has worked on a wide range of issues involving spectrum, regulatory mandates, and homeland security. Guttman-McCabe became Vice President for Regulatory Affairs in September, 2005, and in that capacity coordinates the association’s regulatory policy advocacy. Prior to joining CTIA, Guttman-McCabe worked as an attorney for four years at the D.C. based law firm Wiley Rein & Fielding LLP. He served as an Associate in the Communications Practice Group where he advised clients on wireless and common carrier issues, including licensing, compliance, and policy matters. Guttman-McCabe started his career as a management and strategic consultant to the steel industry at AUS Consultants and later co-founded Jacobson & Associates, a metals industry management and strategic consulting firm, where he served as the Vice President. Guttman-McCabe received his B.A. degree in economics from Swarthmore College and his J.D. Magna Cum Laude from Catholic University with a certificate from the Institute for Communications Law Studies.
Empowering Parents and Protecting Children in an Evolving Media Landscape
For those of you who have children like me, we don’t need studies to tell us that our kids are increasingly using their mobile devices for everything from sending a text to updating their social network profiles. A couple of weeks ago, we filed comments to the FCC highlighting the role wireless plays in empowering [...]
Update on Wireless Competition, Investment & Innovation
Back in September 2009, CTIA and other industry members provided the FCC with extensive evidence on the status of competition, investment, and innovation in the wireless ecosystem. A lot has changed since then and so a few weeks ago, we submitted an update to those filings. As the Commission works on the 14th annual CMRS Competition [...]
Reviewing Tim Wu’s 2007 Net Neutrality Predictions with Today’s Wireless Ecosystem Reality
Before DC’s “snowmageddon,” we filed an ex parte that reviewed Columbia University Professor Tim Wu’s speculative harms that would happen if net neutrality was not implemented. While net neutrality proponents touted his 2007 paper, three years later, it’s clear he was inaccurate. The central thesis of Wu’s paper – that regulation is required because the mobile [...]
CTIA Statement on FCC’s Request for Information on Wireless Early Termination Fees
Today, I issued the following statement in response to the FCC’s request for information on early termination fees (ETFs): "CTIA and the wireless industry agree with the FCC that transparency and disclosure is very critical and that consumers must understand the terms of their contract. "While we understand that the FCC’s Consumer Task Force is [...]
Transitioning To An All-IP Communications Architecture
There’s no question that the communications network landscape is shifting in the U.S. Consumers are continuing to demonstrate an incredible demand for mobile broadband services. Communications networks are transitioning from circuit-switched models to Internet protocol (IP) based technologies that provide consumers with integrated access to a variety of applications and producers that offer services such [...]
Spectrum: The Backbone of Wireless
There has been a lot of media coverage on the wireless industry recently, but there’s a story that few are talking about which is vital for all of us. It’s spectrum — or the backbone of the industry. And unless we get more spectrum, we are facing a crisis. All of the apps, speed, devices [...]
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