Plan to participate in TIA’s annual strategic Conference, October 7-10, 2013 in Washington, DC.
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Spectrum and Jobs
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The lifeblood of mobile communications is spectrum, a precious commodity in scant supply, especially with today's exponential demand for wireless data and video. TIA works tirelessly to free more spectrum for ICT use and has high aspirations for continual success in this arena.
Recent TIA NOW Video
- Capitol Hill Takes Important Steps For The ICT Industry
- Congress Approves Spectrum Legislation: Next Steps?
- The Future of ICT and American Jobs
Policy
- TIA Welcomes NTIA Spectrum Conclusions: TIA supports the U.S. National Telecommunications and Information Administration's report concluding that 95 MHz of prime spectrum can be repurposed for wireless broadband use.
- TIA Supports Spectrum and Public Safety Network Legislation: Key provisions of the Act will create certainty for the market and will promote new investment in critical wireless network infrastructure, create hundreds of thousands of new American jobs and improve mobile broadband service. It will also help fund construction of a nationwide interoperable public safety broadband network.
Recent TIA Reports on Spectrum
- Broadband Spectrum: The Engine for Innovation, Job Growth and Advancement of Social Priorities (Watch TIA NOW video interview with report author Robert Shapiro.)
- TIA Spectrum White Paper
TIA's Spectrum Policy Working Group focuses on spectrum use, management and availability. Activities include FCC filings on spectrum-related issues and setting TIA policy positions on spectrum. Join the Spectrum Policy Working Group (TIA member companies only).
TIA 2012: Inside the Network
The TIA 2012: Inside the Network Conference & Exhibition coincides with TIA's annual member meeting. The event - being held June 5-7 at the Gaylord Hotel and Convention Center in Dallas - is a unique industry event focused on innovation and thought leadership. TIA 2012 is the annual gathering of the community of technology suppliers that form the foundation of the global communications experience.
Spectrum is top of mind and woven throughout the program keynotes, workshops and education tracks, such as:
- Education Track: Converged Network Applications & Services (sponsored by Alcatel-Lucent)
- Workshop: Small Cell Strategies to Address Coverage and Capacity
Several keynotes focused on spectrum at last year's event, including those by AT&T Chairman and CEO Randall Stephenson and FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski. Watch the TIA 2011 speeches.
Learn more about TIA 2012 and register today at tia2012.org.
Technology, Standards Development and Innovation
TR-45 Engineering Committee Mobile and Personal Communications Systems Standards develops performance, compatibility, interoperability and service standards for mobile and personal communications systems. These standards pertain to, but are not restricted to, service information, wireless terminal equipment, wireless base station equipment, wireless switching office equipment, ancillary apparatus, auxiliary applications, inter-network and intersystem operations, interfaces, and wireless packet data technologies. TR-45 Engineering Committee Mobile and Personal Communications Systems Standards.
Market Review and Forecast
TIA's annual ICT Market Review & Forecast includes a chapter devoted exclusively to Mobile and Wireless Communications. Growth in the services, handset and equipment markets is being driven by the demand for mobile data. We predict spending on data services will overtake the voice services market in 2013, and by 2015 data services will be 89 percent greater than voice services.
Learn more about the effects of limited spectrum on mobile networks as data and video take over existing bandwidth in the report.
Purchase TIA's 2012 ICT Market Review and Forecast today! TIA member companies pay only $700 for 550 pages of data and trends analysis for U.S. and international markets.
Other Important Industry Reports
- National Broadband Plan
- FCC Report: Mobile Broadband: The Benefits of Additional Spectrum
- NTIA Report: An Assessment An Assessment of the Viability of Accommodating Wireless Broadband in the 1755 – 1850 MHz Band
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Aug 16, 5pm
We hope that China will use this break in the negotiations to reexamine its approach to the negotiations to expand the ITA and focus on reducing its overly large list of sensitive products. If China is ready to move forward to conclude the expansion of the ITA this year then the ITA Expansion is achievable this year.
Jul 15, 2pm
As part of a large U.S. industry delegation representing a broad array of ICT manufacturers, TIA is in Geneva, Switzerland this week to cheer on the trade negotiators who are working hard to conclude the negotiations to expand the product coverage of the WTO’s Information Technology Agreement (ITA). The ITA remains one of the most commercially important WTO trade agreements – by eliminating tariffs on a broad range of ICT products, the ITA lowers the cost and improves access to these products, which are vital to the economic competitiveness of all economies around the world.
Jun 4, 9am
The Telecommunications Industry Association was in Geneva last week along with AdvaMed, the Consumer Electronics Association, the Entertainment Software Association, the Information Technology Industry Council, the Liquid Crystal Polymer Coalition, the Motion Picture Association of America, and the Semiconductor Industry Association. This coalition of high-tech companies represents a broad spectrum of manufacturers and service providers in the information and communication technology (ICT) sector.
Mar 26, 5pm
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).
