TIA News

TIA Engineering Committee Meets With Chinese Delegation on Towers

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:00:00 PST

TR-14.7 met with a delegation of China's leading structural engineers and is discussing approaches for the internationalization of the TIA-222-G Structural Standard for Antenna Supporting Structures and Antennas and fostering working relationships with other standards groups around the world.

Common Language for Smart Devices Envisioned by Newly Launched TIA Standards Initiative

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:00:00 PST

A new Smart Device Communications (SDC) Engineering Committee (TR-50) just created through TIA member companies is intent on speedily developing a ubiquitous protocol for communicating with smart devices to enable, monitor, and ensure interoperable interfaces to the network.

TIA Applauds FCC for Establishing Cell Tower Siting Deadlines

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:00:00 PST

TIA applauded the FCC for unanimously adopting a Declaratory Ruling establishing deadlines for state and local entities to review and make final decisions on cell tower siting applications. The new policy will prevent regulatory delays of deployment of new wireless broadband services.

TIA Files Comments on China's Draft Telecommunications Law

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:00:00 PST

Submission seeks to improve transparency and create a fair and competitive market environment for China's telecommunications sector.

TIA Files 2010 National Trade Estimate on Foreign Trade Barriers with USTR

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:00:00 PST

TIA Represents U.S. Telecommunications Industry at U.S.-India ICT Working Group Meeting

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:00:00 PST

At the Nov. 4 meeting, TIA applauded India for a number of important liberalizing reforms that have opened the Indian telecommunications market to competition. In addition to welcoming the scheduled January radio spectrum auction for 3G and Wireless Broadband, TIA made a number of recommendations with respect to how India licenses and regulates services, manages and allocates spectrum, and regulates VoIP.

TIA to Host ICT Green Hall at Sustainability Virtual Summits

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:00:00 PST

TIA is support as an ICT Global Leader sponsor of the Sustainability Virtual Summits virtual event series, which is focused on information and communications technologies that will dramatically contribute to mitigating the effects of global climate change.

TIA Webinar: ICT Enterprise Equipment Rebound Forecast

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 16:00:00 PST

In November 11 Webinar, TIA shares the latest market intelligence on how pent-up demand for equipment will rejuvenate the ICT industry starting in 2010, with a 6.3 percent increase in overall revenue predicted for 2011 and a return to double-digit growth by 2012.

TIA Lauds Congress for Extending Public Safety Interoperable Communications Grant Program Funding

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:00:00 PDT

Extension enables states and municipalities to equip and train public safety personnel and deploy planned projects to improve emergency communications.

TIA Urges FCC to Identify More Spectrum for Wireless Broadband Services

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 17:00:00 PDT

TIA urges the FCC to create a 21st-century band plan that identifies Federal and non-Federal spectrum that can be allocated for wireless broadband service, acknowledges the differences in spectrum usage in different bands, recognizes the public benefits of both licensed and unlicensed technologies, and ensures that commercial licenses are granted with flexibility so that licensees can deploy services most beneficial to customers.

TIA Green Report Educates ICT Industry Leaders on Energy, Environment

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 17:00:00 PDT

TIA has released a new report to educate and inform decision makers in need of reliable, relevant information that will help them sort out fact from fiction and carve out a viable business niche: TIA's ICT Green Report: Energy & Environmental Trends & Forecasts. TIA unveiled the report ahead of its three-hour Green ICT Boot Camp at SUPERCOMM, on Thursday, Oct. 22, at McCormick Place in Chicago.

TIA Urges FCC to Plot Course for Economic Viability for Nationwide Interoperable Broadband Public Safety

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 17:00:00 PDT

TIA urges FCC to craft policies to create a financially viable nationwide network, review the requests for technical network compatibility with these policies, consider technical recommendations of the National Public-Safety Telecommunications Council's 700 MHz Public Safety Broadband Task Force Report and Recommendations (NPSTC Report), and leave to the Public Safety Spectrum Trust (PSST) and other public safety entities the task of choosing technologies for such a network.

SUPERCOMM Showcases Telecommunications Industry for Feds

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 17:00:00 PDT

Aneesh Chopra, chief technology officer of the US and associate director for technology in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, Jonathan Adelstein, administrator of the Rural Utilities Service, and Larry Strickling, administrator of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration to talk with industry leaders about pending federal policies.

Recycle Your Gadgets on the Web

Mon, 05 Oct 2009 17:00:00 PDT

ecyclingcentral.com - sponsored by TIA - lists reuse, recycling and donation programs across the country. All you have to do is click on your state and up pops a list to local recyclers. The site also posts scheduled e-cycling events - often put on by civic groups.

TIA Urges FCC to Adopt Broadband Benchmarks that Extend Beyond One-Way Speeds

Thu, 01 Oct 2009 17:00:00 PDT

In response to the FCC's request for comments following its Sept. 2 workshop on broadband metrics, TIA recommends that the Commission develop a tiered analysis for defining two-way broadband speeds that accounts for all technologies and the capabilities they promote. TIA is also recommending that the Commission encourage and facilitate more consumer disclosure in regard to their broadband plan that extends beyond advertised speeds.