ARLINGTON, Va.-The Telecommunications Industry Association said it filed comments with
the Federal Communications Commission strongly suggesting advanced telecommunications capability is not being
deployed to all Americans in a reasonable and timely fashion.
Advanced telecommunications capability allows
consumers access to various services, such as fast Internet connection, through telephone, cable and wireless systems.
TIA believes several factors are contributing to its slow deployment.
“The bottleneck in bringing advanced
services to consumers resides in regulatory barriers and inadequate access for competitive providers,” said TIA
President Matthew J. Flanigan.
TIA made several suggestions as to how the FCC could help further advanced
telecommunications capability, including making the minimum data transmission speed 128 kilobits per second and
giving no category of provider any particular advantage or disadvantage by virtue of regulation.
