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CTIA’s Pres & CEO Largent Talks 2010 and 2011 Wireless Industry Priorities
In the last couple of days, CTIA’s President and CEO Steve Largent has been talking with reporters about his thoughts about 2010 and our industry’s priorities for 2011. Steve told reporters that our focuses are: spectrum; taxes and fees (including Digital Goods Tax, which we’ll have more on later today); and consumer issues. So far, here are [...]
Chart on Why Government Regulation is Unnecessary for Wireless
In this morning’s Morning Tech, you probably saw the mention on what the wireless industry wants the FCC (and consumers) to be aware of as far as our sector. The last three years, 2006-2009, were largely considered to be the worst economic period in generations. Yet if you look at the chart, the wireless ecosystem has [...]
A Recap of Spectrum Week in Washington, DC
This has been a busy week from a spectrum perspective. I think we will look back in several years and say it was a formative week. The continued delivery and evolution of wireless broadband services – and the U.S. wireless ecosystem’s world leadership in broadband – hinge on the availability of sufficient spectrum resources. In [...]
CTIA’s VP of Research Says: No More Flawed Surveys
Every so often, organizations release information attacking the competitive nature of the U.S. wireless market as compared to other countries. Unfortunately, all too often they have fatal flaws that render them meaningless. If one is to conduct a credible, rigorous study of international wireless markets to compare against the U.S., it must: Be an apples-to-apples comparison [...]
More Good News For Wireless Consumers
As I spent some additional time this weekend reviewing the recently-released GAO Report entitled “Enhanced Data Collection Could Help FCC Better Monitor Competition in the Wireless Industry,” I noticed a trend. Maybe my glass is “half full,” but as I looked at this report, the FCC’s recent release of consumer complaint data, the FCC’s “Bill [...]
Mobile Device Recycling
Carriers, device manufacturers, app developers and the rest of the wireless ecosystem are constantly competing for every single customer by developing new products and services, and U.S. consumers win from this hypercompetitive environment. However, since these new devices are frequently launched in the U.S., this means consumers are changing their handsets often. But what happens [...]
An Open Letter to the USA Today Editorial Board
We appreciated the opportunity to write an op-ed on net neutrality and why it should not apply to wireless. Unfortunately, we did not have a chance to read your editorial until it was published in the newspaper yesterday. We were surprised with your opinion piece as there were erroneous statements and only hypothetical concerns about [...]
Measuring Mobile Broadband Performance and Coverage – Why the FCC Should Not Regulate
To say that our regulatory affairs folks are busy is an understatement. Over the next few weeks, we’ll be summarizing our filings to the FCC on major issues that many of you – our loyal readers – have been following. Today’s post is on our filing to the FCC’s Public Notice on measuring mobile broadband [...]
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