Last week was a busy one at the World Trade Organization (WTO) in Geneva, Switzerland. The signs are very encouraging that the member countries of the WTO are back on track to move the WTO’s trade liberalization agenda forward – from the new International Services Agreement (ISA) to the ongoing negotiations to expand the existing WTO Information Technology Agreement (ITA).
Capitol Hill Filings
2013
- April 8, 2013
TIA Letter on Rural Communications (PDF, 53KB)
2012
- December 18, 2012
TIA Files Letter With Congression Leaders on R&D Credit Extension (PDF, 1MB) - December 11, 2012
TIA Sends Letter to Leaders of House Energy & Commerce Committee on Spectrum Auction (PDF, 35KB) - April 19, 2012
TIA Files Letter With Congressional Leaders on Cybersecurity Legislation (PDF, 41 KB)
2011
- October 06, 2011
TIA Files Letter With Congressional Leaders Opposing Expansion of Buy American Provisions Under the American Jobs Act (PDF, 150 KB) - July 20, 2011
TIA Urges Voluntary Incentive Spectrum Auctions to Help Reduce Federal Deficit (PDF, 79 KB) - May 03, 2011
TIA Letter Commending Rep. Eshoo for Introducting the "Broadband Conduit Deployment Act of 2011" (PDF, 57 KB) - March 24, 2011
TIA Endorses Start Up Visa Act HR1114 (PDF, 54) - March 24, 2011
TIA Endorses Start Up Visa Act S 565 (PDF, 56) - March 24, 2011
TIA Endorses STAPLE Act HR399 (PDF, 55) - March 17, 2011
TIA Endorses HR 1009 Federal Communications Commission Collaboration Act (PDF, 56 KB) - March 09, 2011
TIA Supports Permanent R&D Credit Bill, HR 942 (PDF, 57KB) - March 09, 2011
TIA Letter Endorsing H.R. 942, the American Research and Competitiveness Act of 2011 (PDF, 57 KB)
2010
- August 20, 2010
Joint Letter to Congressional Leaders on House and Senate Judiciary Committees Urging That a Measure Mandating FM Chips in Handsets Be Dismissed (PDF, 145 KB) - July 09, 2010
TIA Senate BTOP/BIP Rescissions Committees of Jurisdiction (PDF, 44KB) - July 01, 2010
TIA House BTOP/BIP Rescissions Committees of Jurisdiction (PDF, 44KB) - June 30, 2010
BTOP_BIP Funds as Offsets (PDF, 36KB) - May 27, 2010
TIA Supports FY11 CJS NTIA Request Senate (PDF, 42KB) - May 13, 2010
TIA supports funding for continued oversight and implementation assistance for NTIA’s BTOP program- House (PDF, 42KB) - February 19, 2010
TIA Calls for R&D Credit Extension (PDF, 397KB)
2009
- December 18, 2009
Letter to House Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation on Federal Jurisdiction of IP Services (PDF, 32 KB)
2008
- December 11, 2008
TIA Letter to Congressional Leaders on Broadband Stimulus (PDF, 118 KB) - October 31, 2008
TIA Letter to Congressional Leaders Urging Them to Include Broadband Deployment Incentives in Any Future Stimulus Bill (PDF, 634 KB) - June 18, 2008
TIA Letter to Congressional Senate Committee on Appropriations Supporting Increased Funding for Domestic Science Agencies (PDF, 37 KB) - June 11, 2008
TIA Letter to Congressional House Committee on Appropriations Supporting Increased Funding for Domestic Science Agencies (PDF, 37 KB) - January 16, 2008
TIA Letter to Congressional Leadership Supporting Multiyear Extension of A Strengthened Federal Research and Development Tax Credit (PDF, 36 KB)
2007
- December 18, 2007
TIA Letter to Congressional Agriculture Committees Supporting the Broadband Loan Program and Mapping Provisions in Farm Bill - December 18, 2007
TIA Letter to Senate Finance and House Ways and Means Supporting Broadband Expensing - October 31, 2007
TIA Letter to House Energy and Commerce Regarding HR 3919, "The Broadband Census of America Act of 2007" - September 25, 2007
TIA Letter to Speaker Pelosi Regarding the U.S. Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) with Korea and Colombia - September 25, 2007
TIA Letter to Senate Finance Committee on the U.S.-Peru Trade Promotion Agreement - July 30, 2007
TIA Letter to Senators Lautenberg (D-NJ) and Gordon Smith (R-OR) in Support of "The Community Broadband Act of 2007" - July 27, 2007
TIA Letter to North Carolina Legislature in Opposition to Limiting Municipal Deployment of Broadband - July 20, 2007
TIA Letter to Edolphus Towns (D-NY) in Support of H.R. 694, "The Minority Serving Institution Digital and Wireless Technology Act of 2007" - April 27, 2007
TIA Letter to Congressmen Rick Boucher (D-VA) and Fred Upton (R-MI) in Support of "The Community Broadband Act of 2007" - April 20, 2007
TIA Letter in Response to GAO Report on P25 - February 7, 2007
TIA Letter to USTR Regarding US-Korea FTA (2/7/2007)
Facebook/Twitter Lists
Rural #Broadband Deployment video with Shirley Bloomfield, CEO of @NTCA http://t.co/3N5nigFktr
05.07.2013 // Retweets: 0
“Society has moved, we didn’t exchange info on phones 10 years ago,” says Ryan Brown from @intelsys #ICT #M2M#IoT, http://t.co/dbByEtslq4
05.07.2013 // Retweets: 2
@TIA_Now is the official video sponsor of @NVTCSMC Destination Innovation Event #tech #video http://t.co/0nLlu9T7kc
05.06.2013 // Retweets: 0
“IT and app space has more of a cowboy mentality,” says Fred Yentz from ILS #ICT, #M2M, #IoT, http://t.co/dbByEtslq4
05.04.2013 // Retweets: 0
TIA Releases Statements on Pritzker and Froman Nominations https://t.co/7meKLcsL44 @CommerceGov
05.02.2013 // Retweets: 0
AT&T's President of Supply Chain and Fleet Operations Tim Harden talks to @TIA_NOW about supply chain in the #network http://t.co/LWMPeUlNx4
05.02.2013 // Retweets: 1
M2M and Global Communications - Part 2

-Grant Seiffert, TIA President
M2M and Global Communications - Part 1
-Grant Seiffert, TIA President

Shaping the Future of the Industry
How Policy, Politics and Power Are Changing the ICT Market - Part 3
By Grant Seiffert
President, Telecommunications Industry





