TIA's U.S. Broadband Policy Principles

TIA believes that the United States must take action and assume a role in the forefront of achieving widespread and timely broadband deployment. Thus, we urge the U.S. government to develop a single national broadband policy and implementation strategy. The overriding objective of this public-private partnership should be to ensure that all Americans have access to current high-speed Internet access technologies in the immediate future and to next-generation broadband services. In addition:

• Affordable, highly advanced and secure communications services should be available to all Americans.
• Competitive market forces, not regulation, should be the principal means of achieving this goal.
• Governments should intervene only where such intervention (1) is necessary to effectively address a specific, critical problem and (2) is targeted and otherwise designed to minimize disruption of competitive market forces.
• Governments should make available the necessary radio spectrum for the deployment of advanced communications services.