PCIA to FCC: Ease regulatory restrictions

PCIA took advantage of the Federal Communications Commission’s probe into the competitive state of the wireless industry to point out the heavy financial investment made in wireless infrastructure and to ask the government to ease siting and other regulatory restrictions that slow wireless deployments.
“We urge the commission to take all steps within its power to ease the regulatory barriers to entry that delay or block wireless deployments,” PCIA noted. “Doing so would ensure that the wireless networks will have the capacity to meet the ever-growing demands of the users, which will increase even more as a result of the innovation that the commission plans to promote.”
The FCC voted late last month to look into the state of the wireless industry with an eye to innovation, investment and competition.