Archive for the ‘Public Policy’ Category
Largent Optimistic on Spectrum Auctions
Yesterday, CTIA’s President and CEO Steve Largent spoke with more than two dozen reporters from a variety of publications to discuss the wireless industry’s top priority, spectrum. During the interviews, Steve made it clear that it doesn’t matter if it’s through the super committee or regular procedure, the incentive auctions will happen because, “It’s good [...]
Business Turns to the Mobile Cloud
Since the House Science, Space and Technology Subcommittee on Technology and Innovation is having a hearing this morning entitled, “The Next IT Revolution?: Cloud Computing Opportunities and Challenges,” we thought it’d help to take a look at how a San Francisco-area construction company is using an enterprise app via the cloud to run its business. [...]
Building Bridges with KTOA
There’s no question that the world is at your fingertips with wireless communication, as it allows us to connect with friends, family and business associates all over the world, virtually anytime and anywhere. The global nature of wireless makes it more important than ever that CTIA-The Wireless Association remains actively engaged with the international wireless [...]
Want better wireless service in America? Let us purchase more spectrum.
At best, Joshua Topolsky’s piece this afternoon was disingenuous. To suggest anything but the fact that our industry is the most innovative and competitive in the world is choosing to only see a fraction of reality. Instead of being flippant, look at the facts. In the U.S., there are almost 303 million wireless subscribers who [...]
NAB Opposes FM Chipset Mandate
As Chris said yesterday, FM-capable phones are available for the consumers who want them. The market is responding, and will continue to respond, to consumer demand, and thus there is no reason for a mandate in this area. Our opposition to an FM chipset mandate has long been echoed by groups like TIA, CEA, ITI, [...]
CTIA Statement on the American Jobs Act Legislation
After the American Jobs Act Legislation draft was released today, I issued the following statement: “While we are reviewing the proposed legislation with our members, CTIA appreciates the Administration’s continued support for spectrum auctions. Bringing additional spectrum to auction expeditiously is critical to efforts to address wireless consumers’ demand for mobile broadband service, just as [...]
It’s Time to Replace Fiction With Facts
On Friday, I read another statement from the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) calling on government to intervene in the wireless handset ecosystem. This most recent NAB statement seeking FM chipsets in mobile phones contradicts NAB President and CEO Gordon Smith’s testimony at a recent spectrum hearing that it was not calling for a technology mandate [...]
State Legislators Recognize Benefits of Wireless Technology at NCSL Legislative Summit 2011
During last week’s National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) Legislative Summit, we spoke with state legislators and their staff about some of wireless industry’s priorities for the upcoming state legislative sessions. At the summit, the NCSL Communications, Financial Services and Interstate Commerce Committee passed the Twenty-First Century Communications policy, which outlines the increasing importance of [...]
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